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I'm wanting one to filter through county land records, identify owners, perform background check to identify any types of contact, then organize that into a excel spreadsheet and return it to me.

Are they going up, down, staying flat?

Stay focused on your goal and through sheer volume, you will draw in leads. 

He said "feel free to pull the plug once my life's work is safe again, but I'll stay a vegetable for 6 months if I have to, the IRS is not getting that much!".

I don't mean to sound confrontational, but Peter is clearly looking for information on how to buy his first house in a new market, and to fill his head with delusions of grandeur about 20 caps will pretty much have him spinning his wheels and never pulling the trigger on anything.Peter, there are lots of nice up-and-coming areas in Tampa (there are also some bad areas to stay out of, namely Sulphur Springs and anything around North Howard Ave by Downtown).

I'll also keep all documents organized and available.

Many believe that there's a "best" way to invest and feel that until they find it they should stay on the sidelines.

I would recommend developing a strategy and location, and probably even organizing financing before you find an agent, because until you have all that figured out most agents won't be able to help very much because to them you would not appear as a serious buyer/ investor on paper.

Stay with the conventional, or try to cash-out refi, HEL or HELOC on my primary?