Trying to learn via automation.

[Lulli Debrosse]

I'm interested in "buy and hold" investing. I wanted to code my own web app that will 

• Look up listings across the US or area i'm interested in
• It will cross reference the crime rate and other data
• It will also look at craigslist rents to see if the area meets the 2% rule

As you can tell I'm shooting off the hip  with the data to incorporate.  I'm new to all this and I don't know which pieces of data can help best filter my decision.

P.S: If anyone knows a good sites with an API that has data to work with, I would much appreciate it.

[Benito Sifuentes]

As a developer this is a pretty interesting idea, but I think it would be difficult due to the fact that as @Johnny Kang is that RE is pretty local. The best thing that I could really think of that you could do is to access the MLS. Unfortunately there is no public API for the MLS due to the fact there is no nation-wide MLS but more local MLS information. Your best bet would be to hit a third party API that does the majority of the work for you. I think Zillow is the only one that does have a public API that you can hit. Then it's more refining and shifting through the data to see which properties fit your criteria, and if a property does you can then get the neighborhood data and just keep refining and shifting through your data and see if any actually fit.