@Alex McGhee I highly suggest calling around to a couple of attorneys who handle probates specifically.

As a quick-and-dirty approach I use school quality as a way to guestimate neighborhood quality.

High st or Neil ave. 

Hi everyone,Have you recently bought a house in the NC coast at the current high interest rate?

There is tons of new construction, which means competition (and the only way to be competitive is to lower your rents) and with high property taxes, makes it hard to cash flow.

The risk is high but the loan size is not profitable. 

So if a lender quotes 2k in these costs and a 3% rate and another quotes 5k and 2.8% rate, you can probably buy a point with the 2k lender and bring down the rate lower than the 5k lender and end up paying about the same in closing costs.All other costs are usually about the same, are estimates or you can actually shop for the service yourself.here is a website that explains all the costs.https://www.consumerfinance.go...

My local power company has a program where they can lower power consumption to a property(ies) to prevent the grid going down during high power usage surges. 

In addition to checking out local crime statistics via county and city websites, you may want to check out this website: https://crimegrade.org/. 

@James Wise The owner of Holton Wise Property Management (a very large very well respected property management firm in Ohio) has tons of examples of this on video on his website.