Some of the nicer comprehensive databases systems allow you to upload documents and autopopulate them.

I have a database of 16K contacts just in my home county for example, just for retail RE.

I did a several posts here on BP about using a database and this software.http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2012/04/30/systems-managing-direct-mail-campaigns-investors/http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2012/05/14/setting-up-your-database-for-your-real-estate-investing-business/http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2012/05/07/how-using-a-database-in-your-real-estate-business-makes-you-money/Sharon

For the VA and I, how would I make a database so we can write the details about the property into it?

And then another investor used the term motivated seller one day at lunch about a non-motivated seller he had gotten a call from and I joked that they were motivated, they were motivated enough to call you for some reason.Result I started my unmotivated data base, dead leads, and started farming them sort of, just like my agent had done in the real estate office.

All the data bases I routinely use have the information, both legal description and address.

Under "Property" criteria there is a place to specify a date range for Last Market Recording Date.Under "Mortgage" criteria there is a place to specify a date range for Mortgage Origination Date.Since I'm wanting to choose properties that have a maximum amount of equity, it is logical I would want to specify the beginning date of one (or both) of those date ranges as far in the past as possible.I've noticed however that for the particular counties in Texas in which I'm interested, the counties must have not started recording those dates in the database until about Oct of 1992.

Marie Poe - You are certainly correct that hitting the delet button is easy, what Jerry is trying to get across (I think) is that by peddling garbage, you generate a bad name for yourself and if and when you ever do get a good deal locked, it is likely that some of your potential good buyers have removed themselves from yoru database or simply hit delete without even glancing at the deal expecting it to be crap.

Some First American offices don't even know they have the data base so it could be a little work.

Court records... does your county have a searchable database for your court system?