In my experience, the best tax professionals are the ones who will help you plan several years in advance for ensuring maximum long-term tax savings (as well as short-term, of course).

Considering that i have a functioning brain with the ability to read and analyze data i have decided that they are not going to make money off of me on information that is available for free or even a much smaller fraction of their cost.This is my vision and am kindly seeking your guidance.

I would just say to ensure you have plenty of equity for a quick sale or for pulling cash out for an emergency or whatever.

It can only interpreate and act upon the data it's given.

"The RealtyTrac report is based on data on more than 800,000 properties from nearly 2,500 counties across the United States -- including databases of pre-foreclosure and foreclosed properties.""

I would highly suggest talking with a real estate attorney to ensure you cover yourself and avoid the problems that could come in working without one.

Get the real data and don't trust your investments to hearsay.

But, you have to think about the risks involved to ensure you have exit strategies in place, have enough money put away, are capable of handling major issues and/or have someone to help who does know how to deal with them.As Mike said, the risk is there, but once the research is done and the deal has been weighed in the balances, good deals don't have nearly the risk involved because we've planned for it.

On similar lines, to post in our dealmaking section, you also need a minimum number of posts.This ensures that our users are at least somewhat familiar with you, and it also ensures that you contribute to the community before making any "personal gains" from the site.I hope you can understand our policies (clearly stated in our forum rules) and ask that you abide by them in the future.Thank you.

The majority of this data will be in the Multiple Listing Service (MLS), which realtors and appraisers have access to.I agree with Mike that realtors and appraisers can slant this data, but I still think that the data they have access to will give the most accurate determination of an ARV.