I am a RE investment instructor in the DFW area and I specialize in locating owners of abandoned houses.I am hesitant to say too much being new to this site because I am not familiar with all the posting guidelines and/ or differing state laws.Public data . com is a GREAT website for helping me locate owners but it is limited to certain states for pertinent information.

It's just one data point in a CMA for selling, and it's no guarantee that anyone would pay that amount, and if you're using it to refinance, then you're paying cash/financing (siding) to obtain cash/financing (refinance) which doesn't make sense.

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I noticed a few questions on the forums in recent days related to collecting data from public websites.

Record your data, give it another couple months and then bring it to twice a month, and see how things go.

The online sites like list source and yellow letters do it all the time.I think the key difference is that while those companies sell lists based on the same data, it should rarely be the "same list".

Many parts of the country have experienced 4 to 4.5% rent growth and 3% vacancy but it has been for the past 12 to 18 months.Historically looking at cycles an data that figure is not sustainable long term.

The bigger counties usually have a process to get all of their data and then you can filter and massage it for your needs so that you can identify all mobile homes on land (the same owner for the land and the mobile home) under 1 acre and homes less than 10 years old, for example.  

(I just don't trust anything but me to enter data into my software. 

It may not be perfect for you as it only goes out 7 years but you can add more data/rows as needed.