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i'm still kind of bouncing back and forth between tax sales, and pre-forcloseures, but i will be going to california in about a week to try out tax sales.

This includes vacancies.Many older investors in CA when I lived there had built up a portfolio by keeping the prior family home when they traded up.

Check the CA department that regulates agents.

One of these options is the CALHFA program here in California.

From what I've read cashflow is king.

I dont know if there is some crazy CA law about not taking a contractor and appraiser in but i think it is a good idea.

We don't go up as fast as those wild markets in California and we don't come down as fast either.Mike

dont know about GA tax sales but in CA.. they usually start at 10 to 11am  and at 8am the tax collectors offices is full of people paying their tax's  LOL

Zillow appears to us the tax assessed values in the Indianapolis market, and these values have been about 30% under market value in many cases.However, I see in other markets like CA, AZ and FL where Zillow values are much greater than market value.