I have driven through but not been in a long time.I want to invest close to The Villages so I can see my parents and check on my investments I think someone on here focuses on 34482; I will try to find who that is. 

Hey @Laretta YoungBP boogs are great, ive bought like....5 of them , including long distance....Im also from out of state and I was looking for a place to invest, I did my reaseraches, found few great markets, but the problem is that everyone else invest in those markets....so I was looking for under-the-radar markets, markets that regarding raw data (unemployments, job growth, population growth....) are not right at the top.so I found Des Moines , Iowa, right now im in a middle of a flip there, but I have no reason to leave this area after that.I think that even though other places perform better, for an out of state investor, its more important to have a system, and people he can trust in that market (if you bought David Greene's long distance... through BP store, they also gave you an access to a pdf file he wrote called "the core 4")@Darson Grantham you forgot to put other important links :)this one,  hopefully it will be right again this time:https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/01/these-7-recession-proof-cities-can-offer-security-in-an-economic-slump.html and this onehttps://realestate.usnews.com/real-estate/slideshows/best-places-to-live-in-the-us-for-families?

So you can either do what @James Lanier said and hold in an area that you have data that shows you it will remain solid for years to come or you find the neighborhood behind that one you were talking about and nab some holds early in the neighborhood transition cycle so you get more appreciation on the back end.

Find a realtor with access to data (If you don't really plan and your just doing research make sure you make some kind of arrangement that compensates the realtor for their time) What kind of data do you need:What's the cost to acquire a propertyWhat're the rules for determining the AS-IS or After Repair Value for a property in that specific rural community.

(I'm a very data driven person so if you have statistical support that would also be awesome!)

Should interest rates ever get back to any sort of market-driven interest rates, the house of cards could easily finally crash as many have predicted.The mortgage market is very undeveloped in Colombia, whereby prices are purely driven by supply and demand as they should in a modern capitalistic economy.

I feel like there is a lot missing, honestly.Why can’t it automatically pull in so much of the data that’s available out there for us, when we enter a property‘a address or MLS?

Learn how to find the data you need, rent trends, market rents, vacancy rates, population growth, job growth, etc. 

Seems to me the best way would be to buy as much data as I can,  throw it in a power dialer and blast through it. what's the best bang for my buck?

I just go from data.