I'm in the UK which has a complex situation with US taxes, but if I'm reading this below website correctly you may have an easier time if you are treated as a non-resident Australian for tax purposes.

I have always used Zillow/Redfin to find property and then use other tools to verify and evaluate details about them (like finding out how much rent you can get,  confirming property taxes on the county website, HOA fees, etc.). 

You can check my website out at Astrofundingusa.com.

A few notes on your comment to this aged post thread to shed some additional light since you don't know much about us...Aloha Capital has funded over 3,000 loans since 2015 on nearly 1 billion of residential investment properties and to date has ~ 0.4% default rate.

If your local municipality has an online court records, go to their website and look up both criminal and civil histories.

They have to be tweaked on a regular bases and most of the time it is due to it throwing out some crazy high ridiculous prices for some dates.

To date all I've received is email communications from the sponsors stating the deal failed.

There is more info on my website. 

Of course, that was after we missed the closing date.

4️⃣ Unverifiable Business – No website, no reviews, and only a generic Gmail/Yahoo email?