Best is to research an area before investing in it otherwise you are putting yourself at high risk and you don't want to make mistakes at the start of your investing journey that will leave you with a bad taste of real estate investing. 

Research these markets (i.e. why these are up and coming) and then apply those city characteristics to different cities that you and your significant other are more familiar with.

Resale value for a flip would have to be researched, connect with an agent on that to research comps (send me a message if you need a good agent to work with i can refer you to one). 

Before I spend too much time looking and researching in specific areas I want to make sure I'm not gonna run into any huge obstacles along the way.

At first, I was looking on the counties online public record but unfortunately I will have to search for individual addresses and after doing some more research I came across that is possible to get a listing through the MRIS.

Some of my research led me to believe that perhaps the joint purchase by a married couple (tax entity A) would disqualify me from the exchange, because the new purchase would be solely in my name (potentially tax entity B).2.

I came across this awesome site while researching real estate investing and the many different topics associated with it.

He’s waiting for me to make an offer, and I told him I would give him a call back after i do a little more research.

Both were strong but for the first time in history Inland Empire and Sacramento were stronger and that was a new thing researchers (UCLA) observed.

I'm in San Jose 95119 and from my research, I can build a 440SF ADU.