I had an article published that I think will help.

@Steve Babiak and @Christian Borsbtw I am speaking on Tax Sales at the SF Bay Summit on August 27, 2016, and have extensively written about Tax Sales on Bigger Pockets and in other published material.

There have been a lot of articles published lately in the national press about Detroit real estate.

But they are public record and you can find them either in the local legal newspaper or online at Georgiapublic.notice.com.You don't really have much time once the notice is published, about 30 days as they are auctioned the first Tuesday of the month and advertised the 4 weeks proceeding that.You could just pay a Virtual assistant to compile the list for you.

Instead of giving notice to everyone with an interest in the property that they may lose it due to the taking, the feds publish in some obscure place one time that the property has been seized and that anyone with an interest needs to step forward to make a claim within a short amount of time.

im wanting to invest in decatur illanois and i want ti talk to people from there or with experiense with that place i cant tell if this post is being published is it????

He's been around a long time and published a couple of books as well.

Milwaukee actually publishes a "Vacant Lot Handbook" that gives people ideas about what to legally do with vacant lots.  

A couple of other similar threads were recently started, based on some published article:http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/52/topics/1929...http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/99/topics/1929...

Obesity and overindulgence overall, comes to mind:http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2008/07/obes...Study: 86 Percent of Americans Could Be Obese by 2030"Most adults in the U.S. will be overweight or obese by 2030, with related health care spending projected to be as much as $956.9 billion, according to researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.Their results are published in the July 2008 online issue of Obesity."