Hey @Steven Barr, I suspect the various clerks were just being cranky and/or having a laugh at your expense.Every county in Georgia has a physical "newspaper of record" where foreclosure notices (AKA "Notices of Sale Under Power") are required to be listed.Fortunately, there's also a FREE website (https://www.georgiapublicnotice.com/) that aggregates data across multiple Georgia counties into a single, searchable database, bless their hearts!

If so, I would also start building your investor database and talking with as many as possible.  

In the meantime you can start building your database of potential renters. 

I would say if you don't know the area, you should check the eviction database for that street to see how often evictions occur, you should check crime on neighborhood scout or some other site, and you should drive by the property late at night and see whether you would feel safe getting out of the car.  

Hi All, I don't think there is a centralized database for land, caveat and title information but in Alberta we use https://alta.registries.gov.ab.ca/spinii/logon.asp.

I will be leading the charge on building a scope of work, (if needed) reaching out to my extensive database of subcontractors for quotes/work, making selections/choosing materials, and the main one performing most of the hands-on labor, while teaching him (who has no experience) how to do these tasks.

Everyone forgets, the MLS is a database for agents, for agents to communicate to each other and attract buyers, not for the public.

While paid databases like Yardi Matrix are commonly used for this, free resources such as Zillow Research Data and Zumper Research can offer insights if a paid database isn't available.

For example, if I'm pursuing a highly distressed vacant property and I have a data set that shows me the owner is deceased or 97 years old I know immediately the owner is either deceased or likely deceased and the databases just aren't showing it yet (by law, they have to wait a certain amount of time to post death record) and that I need to zero in on the relatives and associates.    

Building relationships with buyers and having a database of active market that specifically has cashflow.