I really like the strategy of keeping rents slightly below market to ensure occupancy.

So I have been researching the idea of Tax Lien and notes and for ease of gathering data I have been using Miami's city run website that lists all the past due tax amounts.

Whenever you are buying a property out of state you should do a few things to ensure it's as smooth as possible.

Delinquent Taxes can be pulled from Durham County's website data files.  

This is how you ensure that you get what you pay for when it comes to contractors, that you're not getting gouged on bids, and that the work in the scope of work is actually being performed. 

Ensure proper egress and work within local codes.

I'm working on this right now to ensure his profile and forum account are connected.

So obviously I'm not going to argue with data you looked up so we'll just have to agree to disagree on this one.

Real estate agent groups track that data very carefully.

Although according to the contract it is the seller's responsibility to ensure salable title, you as the investor are responsible for seeing that the deal gets done, so the process of ensuring clear title is something that you want to take charge of.