You can also search by school district and area.As far as crime stats, you can look up all police reports for the last six months on the HPD crime stats database.

That said, the administration and congress desperately want to pass something, the two bills are not that far apart, and this 5 of 8 provision is in both bills, so it seems highly likely this will be in the final bill and that bill will become law. 

In reading through the BP posts, I have seen the arguments for and against contacting the Special Administrators that appear to be attorneys. 

You can search for the names of the target homes on your list on the local assessor's database and then look up phone numbers on the paid version of White Pages, or some similar service and start cold calling.

The root of the data comes from each of the 3,400, or so, county Assessors databases.

@Jason Turo the list is too long to mention but Wordpress/Investor Carrot (Websites), Podio (CRM), Globiflow (CRM Automations), Mojo Dialer (Dialer), Click2Mail (Mail Fullfillment), Zapier (API Connector), Call Rail (Call/Text Management), Google Apps (Domain, Email, Drives), Namecheap (Hosting), Upwork (Freelancer Administration),  ListSource (List Building), Rebogateway (List Building), Find Motivated Sellers Now (List Building), Mailchimp (Email Marketing, Landing Pages).

There are also administrative expenses in teaching and of course my time, plus people are more dedicated if they have "skin in the game" (money on the table.)At the end, it is a personal choice.

I am trying to figure out how I can capture the numbers that call my number and create a database that I can then send text notifications to about new properties. 

One responded quickly and offered to query their database and let me know what numbers they would use.

How nice would it be if Biggerpockets had a database on actual cost of work in different areas of the country?