You can ask a realtor to send you data on the supply of homes.

Here's some good regional data if this helps (these were all reports I built when I worked at Long & Foster): http://www.longandfoster.com/Market-Conditions/Mar...I completely agree that Southern MD is a great market.

You can buy lists or you can make your own using country data.

One did make me do it, two others had to "check on it" for a couple days and then gave me the data, and the other 3 cities I have done this with handed it right over, no questions asked.

Are you seeing the transactions take place and you want to know who is buying them all, owner occupied vs investor, etc - basically looking for data?

I looked through the list of foreclosures that i found on the county website but the data related to back taxes was not in the datasbases that the county provides. 

Another interesting thing is that while Google may know how many people are interested in RE at any given point in time, you also would be able to get similar data by monitoring blog page views and number of newbies joining BP on any given day.

Also, what ONLINE resources could you share which might shed light on:market rentsmarket rehab costsBefore you say it, I am calling local brokers, CPMs, and others for this data.

They also have a product called Fireline that will analyze data such as foliage, winds, terrain, etc. and give a probability of a structure in any particular area being burned in a fire.

He may need you to spoon feed him the data at set times because he is failing to manage reviewing deals on his own time.How many deals have you two partnered on?