Hypothetical goals for 2015 (simply to help the discussion).Sell and rehabilitate three homes, earning $60,000 total after all direct costs.Wholesale four properties, earning $20,000 after all direct costs.Spend $10,000 on direct mail marketing.Hire at least one VA spending about $3,000 on their services.Spend about $5,000 on "other" expenses like web site, cards, office equipment, lawyers, etc.Have my spouse run a lot of the day-to-day, spending about 20 hours a week on the business.

It's really more a function of available public data rather than size of the market.Since Texas is a "non-disclosure state" the accuracy of the Zestimate suffers somewhat.We publish accuracy data down to the county level here:http://www.zillow.com/zestimate/#accJust click on "states/counties" in the accuracy table, then click on a state to get the county-level data.

Probate Notices are published every month here in my neck of the woods so I don't need to purchase any list. 

Your state's Bar Association and/or Real Estate Commission likely have published white papers and opinions regarding the application and impact of Dodd-Frank and the Safe Act, which is specific to your state.  

I always want to own the .com registration for my company name so that I can protect the name and develop a web site in the future. 

And I just started using my Web site for lead generation.

Go to the NYS Division of Corporations web site, select a name and pay the fee. 

Reading about "web scraping software" and all those excel spreadsheets has definitely been fair warning: this is serious business.

Get a publishers clearing house banner and attach it to your car , show up with a camera and knock on the door ,  When everyone comes out have them on tape ask them their names and then hand them the court papers .

Tax Assessor web site> There is a drop down tab for Forms, Appeal Forms are listed at the top.