I’ve started digging through county/public records to discover potential wholesale leads (pre-foreclosure data, etc).

The steps you're taking are good ones in order to establish a FICO score, but as you already said . . . it'll take a while.There is an alternative process to this "automatic underwriting" called Manual Underwriting in which the underwriters are able to use manually input different data into the loan process and can often approve financially healthy individuals who can't get through the automatic underwriting process due to "no credit score."  

Its SUCH a big topic, it would be hard to gather all of the data you need in just forum posts. 

They are actually syndications of your local MLS - they get their data from MLS, and should be pretty accurate. 

Again this is not an economic crisis or economic recession you can not apply old data point like 2008 and claiming that we are better/worse.

I was starting to put together the data for the fake ads and thought, wouldn't it be better if I had already gotten a deal or at least asked some flippers what their criteria was?

@Mindy Jensen I’m excited to review the data!

As @Brett Kash mentioned there are areas like that up here.For me, I usually take a peek at the crime data for the area, drive around a bit (maybe have lunch at a restaurant in the area and even ask the servers about it if they live there), then look at rent prices and run the numbers. 

Hi BP, I am a real estate investor in Philadelphia I've been thinking about some ways to get more involved in the market, one of which was getting more familiar with the data that supports house sales. 

I tried my best to read through the posts but keeping how fluid RE market data is, I decided to ask one more time.Please suggest Zip codes and Contacts based on the criteria below.