@Michael LeI remember seeing a graph based on historical data on Marcus Millichap's site showing that interest rates do generally trend with cap rate.

I wrote a computer program to scrape data off of craigslist, Zillow, Facebook, and our public mls.

If you compare the metro data, Syracuse is slightly "better" but not enough to do out-of-town investing.One other note about Syracuse: I would argue that it a totally different class of market than Philly and Minneapolis.

I'd be curious of where the authority to designate these zones rests in other states, some timeline expectations data points, etc. 

However, I do have to wonder, wouldn't the people buying these liens have aggregated some data to inform their future investing habits?

Anyway, I've been using MrLandlord.com for years, $15 for transunion and eviction reports that I enter the data in myself.

So much data just gone, smh. 

Credco, factual data etc.I always suggest that if you're going to shop don't pull your credit more than 3 times to be safe.  

I am basically going to culminate all of my data I have been processing on the area and create one ultimate direct mailing list.

Have a good grasp on rents at comparable properties (Craigslist, local property manager data), and expenses (tax assessor, utility providers, home insurance etc), and come up with an income number.