You can get information such as property records, property characteristics, comparable sales data, tax assessments and more from tax assessors and county recorders offices across the nation.  

You can utilize the 72t provision to take substantially equal periodic payments with one of 3 benefit methodologies.

Anyone buying HUD Code homes needs to be able to find, read, and understand the data plates in the home, and to be able to cross check the serial number on the frame.

So, data on foreclosures, divorce rates, or absentee owner volume doesn’t necessarily help me.

Everybody is mailing to preforeclosures, and much of the reifax data is outdated...sold properties, foreclosures complete, etc.

The NAHB was just out with a chart on this at the state level in an piece about the age of the housing stock: http://eyeonhousing.org/2014/02/05/the-age-of-the-housing-stock-by-state/ Now this chart is based on Census data and uses the under 45 cohort instead of specifically the 18-34 YO group but you can clearly see where the young population is growing.

Values for nice homes are driven by what other owner-occupants will pay, not what investors will pay per dollar of cash flow.

, cropped it to remove the date/time/geo data, and then attached it.

It's worth it to take a close look if it's at all possible.Second, have you driven past the homes and scoped the neighborhoods?

It will put you in the ballpark, but so will Zillow if you know how to look at comps and derive a basic value from the data.