Can you see a pattern of erosion on the property?  

The pattern of advice seems to be avoid getting my license for now and spend this time on deal evaluation, or better yet, bringing deals to an experienced investor.

If you start to see a pattern of 2 or 3 agents with multiple listings in the area, well, those are the people that I would call first. 

There's no pattern of buzzes but usually it will hum several times and will come and go.

I’d suggest looking at stuff beyond cash flow, like appreciation of course, as well as job growth, population migration patterns, ratings on best places to live, etc.

According to our process, they are in a holding status pattern - not bad enough to accept but not bad enough to turn down.  

Thank you for your input Ray.Just a little background of who we are.My backgrown is 12years of managing portfolios of THOUSANDS nonperforming loans through the foreclosure process.My "tech" cofounder's backgrown is business Intelligence , data integration,  and analytics.And my last cofounder's is pool acquisition, funding and boarding.All in the mortgage industry.I completely agree with you that there are some companies providing auction data and comparables but they are very basic, close to useless info imo.Your reasons for cancelations are also accurate, but again i believe this is common knowledge for any respectable foreclosure investor.What we've noticed is that patterns do exist! 

With young neighborhoods comes massive spending in infrastructure, like sewers, water lines, rerouted traffic patterns, city parks, etc.

I have all BP email from the keyword alerts filtered into a folder, then check through them every so often (deleting most of them).I think @Micah Redden's doing a "second Tuesday" pattern, but he'd have to verify that.

It is supposedly the most overpriced area in the US based on historical patterns.