Thanks Carrie and Jordan.I do already own my own home in the city of Austin.

In our area, we have access to the MLS and Realist Tax Records, with both providing very good search tools so we can target more specifics than the average person looking on Zillow or at their city records assessment site, although some city websites are actually a very good tool.  

The fair market value, and the price it was assessed at for taxes, is $236,000 (according to the city records).

I trick I use is to find a comparable property I like and then look up the contractor associated with the building permits in the county or city's permitting system.

Hi Gem have you visited AZREIA as that is a great place to network and find active investors to partner with and hard money lenders outside of BP community - let me know once you are ready for off market exclusive deals as I specialize in city violation , probate and fire damage deals 

I'd just recently realized that our city has a very different profile than even the city right next door.  

You may be able to look up the zoning in Revere by going to the city website. 

Hawaii (in case you're considering flipping here @Brandon Turner) was the worst.National average for 2nd quarter was 48.4%, which was 1.5 lower than same time last year.Here's the full article: https://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2017/09/14/dallas-among-worst-cities-for-home-flipping-report.htmlFor DFW flippers (and others), how accurate is this report?

I live in New York City

I'm doing something very similar in Kansas City and am doing a cash-out refi with a local community bank.