It’s an excellent area for rentals, although currently tough to buy at numbers that make sense.

I have a huge long list of tax delinquent properties I got from the county's office, I was wondering should I type as much information as I can into excel myself or is there an better less tedious option???????

You have time to watch handyman videos and to paint, and time to build up savings for the next.  

We have an excellent credit score (820+) and have about 250k equity in our home.

When we left the place was in excellent condition, but needed cleaning.

An excellent point.What about putting down a good sized chunk of change, say 45%, such that the property DOES cash flow.

I was actually planning on doing it via video conference, but in person would be cool too. 

He does have a few videos out there as well.

I have more free time then I would like, so I spend countless hours browsing the internet to find blogs, books, videos, and discussion forums to learn from.

By the look of the area trend, it seems there is much trending in the area which that was an excellent question because when I was searching for properties, I did not take in consideration of the area trends.Thank you so much for the feedback you brought up some great point that I overlooked.