So I would suggest that you should keep on calling sellers back and or make a bigger data base of distress sellers.

I'm looking to perform a economic/demographic analysis as part of the report and am looking for help acquiring data.

@Christopher Dumelle, I honestly tracked it for two reasons...primarily to make it feel like I was a little bigger player =) but too I am a data junkie (being in IT and all).

The site is CRSdata.com I've researched this site and it provides MLS data and can provide investors with mailing lists and sales comps.

Does any one have any suggestions of what is a good phone to have as an investor that is good for storing data and sending emails fast on the go?

The more research I do on here and on city-data forum, the more I see these 'ghetto' rarely turnaround.

Will of course ensure that this and other aspects like lawn cutting etc are included as tenant responsibilities in the rental agreement.

Or is the thought of a loss too great that you would rather rent it to ensure you break even when it's sold.

Finding comps isn't necessarily hard, but you begin to get vastly different numbers for houses that are pretty similar.Given that I am new to this and want to minimize my risk exposure on my first rehab deal, my first intuition is to just focus my search in the zip codes I can easily comp out and I know will limit my risk of basing my decision on bad data.

Maybe you could find some students to do the data entry for you, preferably students of accounting.