All Forum Posts by: Geoff Blinks

There has to be a way to do this; otherwise, how are commercial developers able to make accurate judgement calls about what to build...

Is there a business opportunity here in developing a tool that can aggregate and provide this level of, what I think to be, basic and fundamental demand analysis?

@Sam M. I've run the numbers and it can't be accurate. It says there are only 4800 records for 90048. That doesn't sound accurate. Does the listsource "count" include, for example, each apartment building as a single count or does each door go into the count?

Let me give you a use-case here that is similar to what I'm trying to solve and maybe you can help me find an alternative approach.

A new hospital is being built that will employ 5,000 employees.

Vacancy rates in the area sit at 5% (which is effectively zero).

What net new number of housing is needed to support some % of the 5K employees who will want to live and work in the area?

If I knew that there were 10,000 residences and effectively zero vacancy, I could justify the development of a 200 unit apartment development because even if only 5% of the 5,000 new jobs want to rent in the area, that would show a need of 250 new units of housing.

@Jeff B. What if I want to draw a boundary over an area and get the stats just for the selected area? Is there a way to do that? The county and city-level is too broad, especially when analyzing a dense portion of a city.

@Jeff B. huh?

Is there a way that I can find the number of units of housing in a geographic area, including apartment units? 

I'm trying to figure out raw number so that I can calculate the shortage of housing based on population and job growth in the surrounding area.

No monthly debts and as far as savings/reserves, what you see is what I've got. I consider the $28k in savings to be my reserves.

Hello. I would like to share my financial situation with you in hopes that you can help me formulate a solid investment strategy. Here are my current holdings: 

• $28K in Money Market Savings 
• $13K Roth IRA $10K in Wealthfront (90% stock / 10% bonds)
• $3.5K in Betterment (90% stock / 10% bonds) 
• $46K in Fidelity Rollover IRA - Me
• $20K in Fidelity IRA - Wife

No debt. I make about $150-175K yr.

I have one other property out of state worth $315K conservatively with a $180K balance on 1st and $9K balance on HELOC.

Wife and I are about 35 yrs in age. 

I'd like to know: Am I on track for retirement? What, if any, additional investments could I make that would be financially responsible or should I just keep saving?