I can't defend my position with any great load of data or passion; it just made me feel safer.

Put your own name in and city to see if how accurate this amalgamation of public data can be! 

I've heard many tout the benefits of using a VA to handle many of the mundane: number crunching, data review and updating of spreadsheets, etc...So, how does one decide on a VA, what services do you use and other input you might have regarding the topic.thank you in advance.

Here are few of the tools we use to import into QuickBooks- Bay State Consulting - Transcation Pro- Karl Irvin's tool at q2q.us to import data into QuickBooks.Send me the Buildium file and let me look at it.Gita Faust

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Property tax data is usually in the form <Owner Last Name> <Owner First Name> <Owner Middle Initial> ...  

The data must be easy to access and manipulate, and interop (exports, data exchange) should work well.

My goal is to come to terms with the first / best offer when ever possible.Hope this helps with your question / data collection.Ed 

Tim, Data on population density, response rates, income per zip responses - this is not science.

There are very few pages with that ratio and the data there is usually outdated.