Real estate and the Internet are connected at the hip. So much information, so many ways find what you need and so much you don’t. Some good real estate links for Portland follow. Please add comments with others that you find. Shameless commercial plugs will be deleted.

• Lots of City of Portland records information about specific addresses at PortlandMaps.com. Everything from tax data to crime stats to natural hazard risk maps.
• Where your child will go to school at Portland Public Schools.
• Take a bird’s eye view of your home at Google Earth.
• Search for real estate, save searches and view addresses at TurnerRealtors.com (my site, my shameless plug).
• Find about about permits and zoning on the City’s other website: PorlandOnline

• See the list of drug labs that have been tagged unfit for living because of meth.

• Information about oil tanks at the DEQ.
• Reread my Buyer Due Diligence post. Lots of good links in there.
• The Oregon Real Estate Agency
• The Contractors Construction Board. Is you contractor licensed?