I haven't used it, but I can't imagine it would be particularly helpful since REO's are almost always listed and if it's gathering data on notices of default, those sources are usually late and you can find it much more quickly by going to the county's website.

Make sure you have a nice data provider for a hotspot since you won't be working from a home office as much as you are working from a coffee shop, lunch spot, or vehicle much of the day. 

I do not understand if their collective motives are to harvest and aggregate data and monetize or more hostile and punitive? 

Howard,I meant to put the values in there but for got. the 1.1 acre property has a Zillow estimated value of $139k (which I see as worthless data). tax assessment is $61,000.

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Embarrassingly, it took me a whole weekend to pull data for the 650 properties manually before realizing I could export 75% of what I needed with a click of the mouse.

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The more data points you can gather the better.  

She presented us with all of the pertinent data and my buyer said he would run it by his appraiser buddy and get back to us.

So once they get that user's input, rentometer then has another data point to use when evaluating the next request for similar units in that area.