They examined every nook and cranny of the house, while the kid didn't seem that interested.  

Just a lowly examiner, enforcing them.

When you examine the people advising the popular course of action you see that are either people who are selling something such as mentorship programs in wholesaling properties, or people who have recently committed time and or money to this pursuit and have a almost fanatical need to convince everyone else that their course of action was correct.  

first we should examine if those statements are true.  

I would target their rebukes with well formulated questions that cause them to examine their own false biases.

To your question on whether it has some potential:If you examine Chatham on a crime heat map it's great compared to some parts of the Southside.  

When a house is purchased with financing in a mortgage state, there are at least two things that are recorded with the county: the deed that shows the change in ownership, and the loan (actually a lien that goes with the loan) and who provided that financing.If it has no financing - as in all cash - then one of those earlier items (lien from the loan) will not be needed and so it will not be found when you examine the public records.

We examine median prices, REO, forclosures, number of SFR, equity %, DOM, cash sales, etc.  

@johnathan Klemm @deonte palmer Hi I oassed my brokers exam in Sept 2020.

On one hand investors who don't understand the community think its easy and don't examine or research anything else aside a cheap price.