A principal (who is not well versed in contract law) in a transaction can draft their own contract form just like someone accused of murder can represent themselves...and both would be making a grave mistake.

A deterrent for others to make the same mistake.

To avoid those mistakes some people like me trust companies like RTR because they advertise themselves as people to be trusted.

We can't make the next guy pay for the last guys mistakes.

Start small and Make Your Big Mistakes Early.   

Firstly, well done for persevering and trying every avenue you thought would get you the data you needed.Most would have caved earlier and handed out there hard earned cash for old, saturated leads/records from the same prominent platforms which dump them pretty much when they receive them from either 1).the same large brokers AFTER the county has listed them on the county website or, 2). from the counties themselves directly AFTER the county has listed them on there own website, or, 3). from data scrapers on Upwork/Fiverr who scrape the data from those same platforms AFTER the counties/brokers sell those platforms the data being scraped by the freelancers.Anyway, rant aside you seem to of made the same mistake i made when I first started branching out away from providing leads to my original couple of clients i got from Upwork who wanted me to scrape data from court records in FL for pre FC leads.Simply, I didn't know where to look for the information I needed in states outside of FL.FL only allows the judicial route to foreclosure so I only needed to know/find/scrape the data from Lis Pendens documents for counties they requested.

You're making a fairly common mistake of designing your castle when you haven't even learned how to build a chicken coop.

After the 08 crash, I started buying rentals and built a portfolio of 80+ sfh's - all three bedroom homes in areas with good schools.My mistake was selling a bunch during covid.

They fixed that mistake with the 2nd investment and declared it lost.It doesn't sound like AHP is declaring it lost yet.

One mistake or big unexpected expense could ruin you if you only have one or two rentals that are not cash flowing.That said, especially in the current environment, if you are coming from a very strong financial position then there may be times where it may fit your goals to invest in a highly appreciating area with no or negative cash flow.