@Chris Seveney - Where do you get your data on US treasury demand - per your "very weak demand" comment? 

Just DM me if you want any additional data.

Also the 1% rule is about as good as the rule thumb and not based on current conditions or current data. 

You can use Airdna & other STR estimator tools to get data on potential income/vacancy based on your location and property size. 

You can always get MLS data many places.You be the investor, let the realtors do their jobs.

Last week a historical home in a California state park was burned to the ground by an arsonist. 

If that's the case, check out some of the economic data about what cities have strong job and population growth.

My goal for the team would be to have one project under-way by EOY.The exit-strategy of each deal will be dependent on location, market data, and ROI comparisons to determine the best route forward for the team and our goals at the time.

The historical appreciate indicates it will not keep up with inflation and therefore loose value in inflation adjusted dollars.  

Firstly, well done for persevering and trying every avenue you thought would get you the data you needed.Most would have caved earlier and handed out there hard earned cash for old, saturated leads/records from the same prominent platforms which dump them pretty much when they receive them from either 1).the same large brokers AFTER the county has listed them on the county website or, 2). from the counties themselves directly AFTER the county has listed them on there own website, or, 3). from data scrapers on Upwork/Fiverr who scrape the data from those same platforms AFTER the counties/brokers sell those platforms the data being scraped by the freelancers.Anyway, rant aside you seem to of made the same mistake i made when I first started branching out away from providing leads to my original couple of clients i got from Upwork who wanted me to scrape data from court records in FL for pre FC leads.Simply, I didn't know where to look for the information I needed in states outside of FL.FL only allows the judicial route to foreclosure so I only needed to know/find/scrape the data from Lis Pendens documents for counties they requested.