Data over the last century shoes REITs have a correlation to stock market returns. 

If the owner lives in town, you could even go knock on their door, I find this to be extremely successful when you are going after foreclosed properties.As to your 1st post, you might want to look at city data for growing markets, It looks like Rochester lost population last year, vs if you look at sunbelt cities like, Houston, DFW, Austin, Miami, Orlando, Tampa, these cities saw at a minimum 1% population increase.

Consider different selling options (traditional sale, rental, or auction) based on market conditions.Tools that may help: QuickBooks for budgeting and expense tracking.Zillow or Redfin for real-time market data Asana or Trello to track the progress 

I'm trying to find something from them or anyone showing occupancy rates historically as I love seeing some of that data - as both a builder of str cabins in eastern tennessee and someone holding str cabins in eastern tennessee. :-) Any chance you have a link or two to the report? 

Any insights on economic development, population movement and jobs diversity for Mobile, AL will be much appreciated.I have already used city-data for these markets, but the information is dated.

@Daniel Windingstad,I believe @Taz Zettergren mentioned Alabama, and I wanted to chime in since I’m active in multiple markets across the state.I’ll talk specifically about (property) taxes since this data can be easily compared.

I’d love to hear how you approach gathering rental data and any other resources you recommend!

Hillsboro - A little known fact is that Hillsboro is one of the leading locations for Data Centers on EARTH. 

The last couple years of data are hard to point to conclusively just because so much was changing in the market, but it looks like at this point you've likely ridden the value down, and from here it is likely to rise and has started its trend back up.

According to data from the Housing Authority of Baltimore City, demand for vouchers remains high, and resources are stretched thin.