Here are some useful links on the local us market, vacancy rates, foreclosures, stats on US property:A useful education on foreclosures/short sales…http://foreclosureuniversity.com/blog/Good local stats on investment property in the US.

City-data will give you some local stats as will Wikipedia

These stats are way above my head!!

Have some sort of method to collect contact information - my stats show that a box on the middle right hand side of the website is most effective.

If they think the home is worth 100K you can show them stats till YOUR blue in the face - they won't budge.But try it - after you do it 2-3 times you will start to find what works.

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If you're talking about stuff like crime stats, population and and other demographic data, you can find this type of info on the Census Bureau along with city-data You should also read the local paper online to see what's going on if you are looking out of areaThe more specific you are with your questions the better answers you will get...

A lot easier to manage something close by then 2,000 miles away.Lots of OH investors on here getting tenants - I have worked in a lot of very "bad" cities by the "stats" and have never really had an issue.......Instead of making the assumptions you did I would talk to some of the OH investors - join local REIA groups and find out what is happening on the ground first

http://www.examiner.com/x-13348-Jacksonville-Independent-Examiner~y2009m7d9-Obamas-Poll-Numbers-Falling Many other articles on this can be located here http://news.google.com/news/more?

There is nothing that anyone can say -- or anything that this administration can do -- to change their opinion, because they don't want to weigh the evidence, or examine the facts...they just want to prove what they long-ago decided would be the ramifications of a Democratic administration.