https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/87/topics/684...https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/93/topics/159...Yes, people do use delinquent tax lists to narrow down their marketing.  

Once you've narrowed your interests, you can start looking into books that will help you learn more about that specific strategy.

I am narrowing the actual costs of repairs, but I was curious if the experienced flippers are spending an average on rehab costs for basically total rehab.

Thanks @Nick B. and @Zach Quick.

There's a lot that you need to discover before you narrow down the best options for purchasing.  

From there we searched county records to narrow our list down to homes with a different mailing address than property address.

Great advice.We use Listsource.com primarily mostly because we are able to narrow down our search based on a certain area that we are interested in and also by specific criteria such as bedroom count, equity %, last sales year, median price range, etc.

Then use that figure to narrow down your property search. $15k isn't a lot to purchase an investment unit.

Then once you're prequalified, use that figure to narrow your search. 

Now depends on what ROI, asset class you are willing to deploy your capital, research and narrow down the market, socialize other investors who have invested there and what their experience has been, vet TK providers thoroughly and definitely visit the place atleast once to see things through your own eyes.