Do your initial research online then drive into the town and start chatting with convenience store clerks about the area.

@Dan Demers @Peter Kolat The whole goal of Google Adwords is to drive quality traffic to your website.

(read the coastal areas that created the current market bubble.)If you are in a rural town in the heartland chances are that you can buy a piece of property with a house on it and it's going to be the house that drives up the land at a steady rate keeping pace or slightly out pacing inflation (contractors prices are going up lately because of gas prices).If you buy the same house on the coast chances are it will be worth lots more because of the location of the land it is sitting on.

Based on demographic and housing data, e.g. population, population growth, median age, homes owned, homes rented, job growth etc.

All you have to do to get my vote is come up with a good plan to fix the economy and drive fuel prices back down again and you've got my vote!!!

Their concern is, if we take a property back, we have to sell it low enough to compete with everybody else's REO.I feel like we are in an environment where banks are actually self-destructing by driving property values down (dumping their stock).They get into a vicious cycle of lowering property values because they are forced to keep lowering REO prices to move them.

I am like you, even before I was an investor, I preferred to drive around a neighborhood and find listings, and call the listing agent directly, and make an appointment to see the house.

Drive around the area and look for "for rent" signs.

They are all self-learners and have managed to teach themselves towards success.School is important, but self-motivation and drive is WAY more important.

I can only show it on the weekends and am trying to cut down on no shows by telling them to drive through the area first.