I work as an appellate public defender, which is fulfilling work but not so financially rewarding. :-) My goal is to buy my first property in either of these two markets.

We need to close the second home and yacht loophole, as there is simply no compelling public interest in subsidizing second homes and yachts," - SandersNot everyone can afford to buy their 525,000/600,000 homes cash, Bernie.

General Public - I'm tired of you thinking we are obsolete, someone has to be accountable for showing property and responsible if something happens.

Cash flow:Post refi: $109.26 ($1,311.16 annually)Cash on Cash post refi: 24.8% I do plan to get an agent to help me with CMA's, but these are preliminaryNow...There is a child support lien for about $25,000 against the man (whose address is shown as this property on the lien), but i cant find where he is an owner of the house (only the woman's name appears in the public record)...so does this lien affect this property?? 

But I can give you some general advice.There's usually public notice involved so you pick up the list from your local legal newspaper or website.

I'm from Arlington next door, I would first look at multi family in good public school districts where families want to rent and bring up kids, look at www.greatschools.orgLook at multi FHA financing where you live in one, rent out othersGet an agent, working for buyers, look for a CCIM designationRead everything from Www.justaskBen.comGood luck!

In return, they are often happy to give or sell information that is basically public record (that is, the name, address, and demographic of a given property owner and details of that property), but they have the easiest access to.I recommend calling a local title company, explain that you are interested in making a mailing list, but are unsure where to start.

One idea you have not defined, which you don't have to share publicly, is your desired return target.  

As far as pre-foreclosure, its all public information.

For those of you who care about the broad economic outlook in your investment areas, here's the recent economics report from this month. http://www.jec.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/b2fb1607-cbaa-4d20-871f-c58170cbf5c0/jec-state-economic-snapshots-september-2016.pdfIf that link doesn't go through, google for 'senate state economic snapshot September 2016' and you'll probably find it.