You're not going to cashflow on a water front property and you may have issues with seasonality and/or demand in a very tourist-driven area.If you have an idea of where you'd like to invest and what the numbers might look like, a good way to test the waters is to put an ad on craigslist showing a potential property with the rent you'd expect to get and see what kind of interest it gets.For my rentals in Louisville, over the past 6 years I've had anywhere from 2-3 emails a week to 30+ emails per day depending on the location, rental rate and time of year.

Just curious if anyone uses a website other than county tax websites to obtain accurate data for a yellow letter campaign.

Missing data is an immediate rejection.Rule 2:  read rule 1.

Since I owned some key pure city domains which badly needed MLS data, I decided it was easier to pick up my broker's license and have access to the data.

I know that once you here what I have to say you will see that I am focused and driven and I will not waste your time

It was not until I found a contractor who actually measured our house that I had an answer based on real data.My recommendation is to find a contractor who will actually give you data on your house to help make the decision.  

Let me know as with my deep expertise in Software development & Big Data I am looking to pick one problem to solve as a fun project as long as it has the potential to help at-least 1000 Real Estate Investors on a regular basis.

I've already sent them comp rents from MLS, provided data from my other units in the same neighborhood, and shared the HUD info from the different authority with them.

I suppose I was just interested in finding faster ways to sort through data and pre-qualify leads other than my overseas team.

Just a list will be worth less than something you add value to.Check to make sure you have the legal rights to distribute the data in the product you bought.