Your best bet is to figure your own best skill set and leverage it to your advantage while asking the deal sponsors about their needs.

At that LTV range, your best bet is private lenders; ma and pa types who are sick of getting 0.3% in a CD.

Zillow seems to have the majority of rental listings, at least in Atlanta, and I bet they have a ton of data, which they don't share.

Bet most people are doing multifamily and mix-use and flipping  . 

So, that's something to look at.If you're looking for cashflow, I think it's a good place, but don't bet on terrific appreciation.

It is far safer to have 4 tenants paying rent on a single property than having to depend entirely on only 1 tenant paying on a SFH.

I would bet the company that told you the part is out of production could tell you the old price and give you a labor cost to install. 

You may not be losing money, but you have an opportunity cost because you will have to sit on the sidelines while your cash sits in that property.I think you have to consider opportunity costs when you are betting on natural appreciation.

Being facetious, but I bet that's not too far from the truth.

And yes... very sweet :-)In my mind, trying to find a place that's going to appreciate is a LOT harder and I would move from "investing" into "speculating"  There's nothing wrong with hedging your bet and doing your research and trying to make sure you're not going into an area that's *completely* going to tank, but I've found that when you start speculating on future prices, you start down the path of just what you described... one piece of information says this, another says that... and they're both at odds with each other.