I have asked my real-estate agent to supply a list, but I'm wondering if this information is publicly available some where as a database.I guess alternatively I could just drive around my target area on google maps street view and make my own map, but this would take quite a while...Cheers,Tom

This seemed like NONSENSE so I looked for alternatives.

That's where you can be an example of the alternative choice to be productive.

Or are there creative alternatives?

The husband is a truck driver and the wife is a CPA. 

LOL.many in the fix and flip business though can get a nice tax deduction when buying a nice new truck they use in the business.But limiting debt to your personal resi.. 1 car for you one for spouse.. and then NO other consumer debt ever .. is a good recipe.. 

So I wish to have rentals I'm fixing to turn 45 & have nothing but tools,equipment and truck to show for my work my family and their future depends on me & I don't have a 401k plan.

Last year I bought a slightly used terribly expensive nice truck and put 10k down on it.

The alternatives are to pay $2K+ to Tax Title Services or to do a quiet title.

Yes, opportunity cost is the value of the foregone alternative not taken.When you use institutional financing you can obtain a 75% LTV on your first investment property or perhaps cash out on a refi.As your portfolio grows lenders will begin reducing the loan to value, say to 70% on the 5th, may be the 12th, it is a way of reducing the lender's risk.