Thank you all for all of the invaluable information you have already shared with me and I very much look forward to being an active BP member and successful buy and hold investor.

Also look for areas with population growth Where to find your dataIn terms of the input data we discussed above, here is where you should be looking for each of these: Property Details: This information should be available from the seller, but more comprehensive and detailed information can also be obtained from your local County Records OfficePurchase Information: Obviously the seller is going to name a purchase price (which will likely be negotiable, of course), but the more important information here will be any upfront maintenance or improvement work that needs to be completed to ensure that the property can (or continue to) meet its income potential.

We are almost at another peak in values in CA.

There are plenty of defaulted mortgage data providers.

(I look in France but it’s not so easy either because if I give a stock portofolio as a warranty, it has to be twice in value of what I borrow).

Daniella it sounds like Nathan means this.Maybe it will help for you to see it this way.He buys a property for 40,000 and put 40% down or 16,000.He waits a year for the property to double in value.

Wiki the towns and find latest Census data, that's a good tool and will provide solid top line data about the area.

While I believe that the discussions here are invaluable I wanted to share a way to get information from the gurus for free, sort of. 

Learning the CT Landlord/Tenant laws, building a lease, creating a listing (taking great pictures and being descriptive got us positive feedback), doing showings, screening tenants and actually being a Landlord has been invaluable.

Even many of the Memphis companies cite this data wrong.