In my personal life I've had a difficult path. 

In comparison to the list produced in Harris County, it's very difficult to pull out the physical address, adjudged value, etc in a legible form so as to make sound decisions in advance of an auction.

Mainly, that finding a property that is not over-valued is very difficult with our current circumstances.

I can tell you that especially in the Bay Area, where it is very difficult to find deals on the MLS, it is absolutely not necessary, nor all that helpful most of the time.  

It will be difficult to use VA twice without a significant down payment on the second use it with out selling/refinancing your prior VA financed Home.In areas like pierce county WA you can obtain the average SFR for 150-200k which is only 30-40% of the county limit of 517,500 so that means you may have "enough," eligibility to for second use with little to no down payment and have two VA loans. 

As a matter of fact, I would say those types of flips are more difficult than your flips in the Chicago suburbs.  

Beyond that, you'd be dealing with a "home-owner", which can be very difficult to manage (disagreeing about the renovations, access to the property, something's missing in the house and they suspect one of your guys of stealing it, the homeowner changes their mind in the middle of it and they want out, etc, etc).  

They are still new enough that it seems they were still getting their systems/processes together thus making them difficult to work w/.  

It is more difficult to sell with tenants as this rental has lower cap rate to compare with cheaper locations in Kansas City metro area.

In Austin, it's very difficult to capture any additional income from vacation rentals using a third party property manager.