Like you Nick, I bought the book because it was published after the real estate market bubble popped.

The best way to forecast what land will be needed is published every single day.

Here is what he had to say:"I don't know the publishing date but I know these are the latest material of Kris Kirschner's Auto Pilot program.I received them from the seminar I purchased from KK and attended at Crowne Plaza Hotel located in Atlanta, GA in 2009.

I actually have an article soon being published with the Investors Beat magazine on this exact topic.

Then, once you've down-selected to a few, you do a detailed long-term analysis of the ROI or whatever metric is important to you.Marcus and Millichap is a good source for cap rates and publishes these regionally for what they call primary, secondary, and tertiary apartment markets.

Also, in Allegheny county, the bar assoc publishes foreclosure notices when they are filed. 

Often if the mailing address is different than the physical address, the appraier's office will know that and if they do, they publish it on the property info page. 

Probates can take awhile and depend on what happens in a court room, what date notice was published for the waiting period, etc. 

Rich dad poor dad is a great book to get started, from there I would look into the books published by biggerpockets, I've read almost all of them and every one supply's quality knowledge.

I really liked the Book on Managing Rental Properties published by BP, it helped me a lot.