Hi,I have been interested in real estate for a long time, and this website has great information.I have been driving around and taking note of distressed properties, my next step is I try to find the owners information and call them to see if they are interested in selling.I finally found a very motivated owner that wants to sell, the problem is they are asking over double the market rate for the value of their property. 

Hi TedI have a friend in Real Property Associates, pretty sure they do that area as well. the website is below.https://www.rentseattle.com/

I feel like there is a website or sites we could look at to do our own recon before we decide that area is worth trying to build a team in .

I had got one from the e-forms website lease, but as I've been reviewing it I've noticed a lot of holes in it. 

Are you marketing, website, ad words, direct mail, are you telling everyone that you come into contact with that you buy real estate?

Based on my search of the FEMA website, the property doesn't exactly sit into the flood zone but pretty close to it. 

They always respect & prefer that approach, from what I've seen.

I have looked at some rankings on websites and some data like that but I'm curious what actual investors are thinking and why they focus where they do.

@Nicholas Borda A good tip I was reminded of recently was to look up the other owners on the street or in the general area on the local property records website. 

The auditor website shows he purchased property for 135k in 2005.