Explore BP. 

With capital gains taxes they would like to explore the option of a 1031 exchange.

Just wanted to give you that data point.

Yes, bloggers are reporting data, but the market a year ago was most inflated.

I've tried the local sheriff dept and city data with no success.

Investors are getting more aggressive with their tactics to obtain properties, such as knocking on doors, sending out letters, and using data from court records just to find ways to get properties in the area in such a competitive market.

Ask your agent to pull comps to show historically data so you can see that prices are down.

I believe most MLS listing data comes with a caveat that it is not guaranteed to be accurate.

I think he has one every week so you can probably go through dozens of videos, analyze the data, and see how your results match up to his. 

In order to make more realistic obtainable goals, I need to take real data (or in this case real life experiences) and use that to formulate my own timeline.