Depending on your price range, in law suites exist more on the MD side of the border in the form of Basement apartments.

The only hard case you might get if you get an owner that is deceased or deciding heritage, than you need to hire an attorney or go with probate (from someone outside of usa i suggest you avoid those cases, but if the overage is high than you might consider hiring an attorney).

The info I'm looking for and am able to get1) deceased name2) last address of deceased 3) Executor or admin name and addressThat is all I need to be able to start sending them direct marketing.

Oklahoma is close enough to the open Mexican border so there will be a constant population growth for immigrating families.  

Both have relatively hight taxes in the ball park of 4% of retail value and they both border some rougher neighborhoods.  

There's a lot of activity in NW Indiana right now as many people are migrating across the border from Chicago where they are still close enough to work in the big city, but live in a more affordable and less regulated environment.

Now that the country is 24 trillion in debt with a giant employment problem, huge geopolitical issues, domestic politics are bordering Banana Republic, those are not signs of a strong country.  

Clueless governments over time have added rules to "help" tenants for political reasons such as rent control, then more rules to avoid tenants abusing previous rules leaving a relatively complex system that no new government has the guts to really cleanup (BTW the city of Seattle is trying to go down the same path, clueless politics know no borders).Now, if there are still millions of RE investors, they must make some money somehow otherwise they would all park their money abroad or in commercial RE, leading to residential prices dropping. 

OR border to just south of Seattle that had 10 acres or more of visible timber ( via aerial photography that was available at the courthouse for free )  then we reversed directory them and had tele marketers hammer the phones 2 to 3 nights a week. 

Thanks @Josh Compton.I am looking in western NC, right near the TN border.