Jason- If you are only referring to 24 hr loans, you're fairly accurate.

Is there a professional, maybe an appraiser, who could give an accurate property value?

It cost me a little money to get accurate information on properties but it's worth it at the end when you move a house in a few hours.

Originally posted by Jon Klaus:--You borrow to the max at a low rate on your home, using the dollars that are freed up to buy investment properties.This one is accurate for me.

I also did not listen to the entirety of the video.. on that note, I know that Fannie Mae's chief economist provides his forecast for free on their website, and has been relatively accurate (#4 according to WSJ) http://www.fanniemae.com/media/economics/index.jhtml?

Absolutely agree...Which is why it's always interesting to revisit opinions after the facts are evident to determine whose opinions bore out and whose opinions were completely wrong.Only then do you start to recognize which opinions should be taken more seriously in the future...On the subject of the economy, it's those who have made accurate predictions in the past who now get my attention when they continue make predictions...and those people are few and far between...

To accurately determine value, knowing what is also For Sale won't help you very much.

We have found that in our area Cyberhomes is usually fairly accurate, but you can not take that as gospel, since they do not necessarily use like COMPs all the time in their formula.Once we have all of the COMPs in a 1 mile radius over the last 3 months, we average them, subtract what we feel repairs will cost, then multiply that by 70%.

the taxes seem pretty high. is that accurate?

In my county, I can get data for every property in the county on CD, which just requires a little sorting to get a very accurate absentee owner list.