Also check the tax history... if you see that the price of the house is  more than double of what it was ever sold prior to this date.... its probably not worth your time unless the market is exploded (like in seattle)  but then you are probably already too late.  

However, that is boring instead I propose you do what I did the last time and you focus on getting greedy and cheap as I purchased my best investments the last time the Sellers market exploded into a buyers market. 

The population in the Texaplex region (Houston, Austin, Dallas, San Antonio) is exploding.

Are there any trends you see exploding or falling out of style over the 5, 10, 15 years?

Because the housing market is exploding all over the country, property taxes are going up along with inflation. 

From 1990 to current day, Apopka has exploded from somewhere around 15,000 people to over 50,000, and builders are selling new houses as fast as they can build them.  

Our market is currently exploding because of new manufacturing jobs opening up, we have had an influx in our city of more than 30,000 people, this was a 70,000 pop city and its now well over 100,000 and increasing.

I'm sure you know by now the Boulder market exploded and the price is high.

We sell a lot of turn key rental in this area and it is exploding now.

I think we have relatively low prices for goods and services and the pay for these factory workers is steady for that, but home prices have exploded.