Thank you Chris for advice and the perspective.  

To use that info to judge where to buy a property you'll need to consider what demographics are moving to the city, what the housing trends are for those segments of the population, see if that's something that will continue over the next 5-10 years, consider what happens to those folks once they shift gears a bit (do they stay in the city?

From your perspective what are the best crowdfunding platforms?  

Since surveys not usually recorded in the public records, any survey you locate is of little use from a purchase perspective other than for you to see what "may" be the property boundary lines and possible easements. 

Perhaps a conversation on perspective is in order.

I have only looked into HUD from an investor perspective.

Do you have any thoughts on which island is best from an investor's perspective?  

At this time, I am working full-time as a third-shift (10:30pm-7:00am) janitor at a nearby university. 

You need to make a onsite inspection to determine the cause.Normally it would be caused by shifting of the foundation but that does not develop suddenly.

From another perspective, though, prices are higher ... so lower rates on higher prices may be more expensive in dollar amounts, as I suspect would be the case in many markets (yours and mine, for example) for a mortgage payment at 15% in the 80's vs the mortgage payment at 4% for the same exact property today, even after adjusting for inflation.