while @steve b. is removing his tongue from his cheek, there are a few different ways to look at sf/bay area in the long term. if you are looking for relevant metrics, it's pretty easy to do some modeling based on zillow's published research data -- it will let you get pretty granular so that you can compare zips in areas that might have similar urban/suburban growth disparities in recent years (esp nyc, la).

Here in Iowa they publish it over the website  for example for one property in past sale Approx.

I want to offer my neighbor friend my property for rent first before publishing it to public.Your expertise is greatly appreciated! 

Of course, I'm sure there must be some economists or other professionals who stay abreast of the conditions in US markets and publish updated comparative analyses.

However, it's for forfeited property on March 1, 2008, and/or on March 1 of a prior year, for failure to pay delinquent taxes, interest, penalties, and fees, be foreclosed in favor of this County Treasurer.This seems so old, however I talked to the county treasurer's office and they said this is the most up to date list they have and there will be a new list published in August.How are other investors getting to this info??

As for time, after filing articles of org, about 2 weeks to hear from state, then I publish as per state requirements, that has to run for 6 weeks, then another week until I get the cert of publication, then file that with the state, about 2 more weeks and whala!

Hey Ashwin Bhavikatti - We just published an incredibly comprehensive guide on Tenant Screening, and in it, we also share a tutorial for using one of our partners that we believe, has the best screening product available right now.

But, if you do buy the books, you can get also get them here:BP & J Scott BooksBiggerPockets published them,and if you buy them from this site, you get the PDFs of each book included (or you can just buy the PDFs if you don't want the physical books), and you also get a bunch of other digital goodies in the package.

You're in luck, BP just published a free ebook on the subject of renting out your house a few months ago.

All true, Bill, but you know, at first Amazon was partnering with the big publishers.