An Interesting Tool for Area Research

[Igor Kalabukhov]

So, today I was conducting some primitive market research in order to narrow down my "farm" area. This brought up an interesting question.... how do I get a lot of information for a particular zip code that I am looking at, or even more importantly, a particular neighborhood that I want to evaluate the potential of. 

This question brought about an interesting find in a website called Neighborhoodscout.com. 

I wanted to put this out to see if anyone else has used this in the past, and potentially do not have a real estate agent that can whip them something up from the MLS (like me!)

Also, I've read some aspects that are needed to look at a certain market, but if anyone has any tips for this I am more than happy for accept new information!