When evaluating a neighborhood for potential price appreciation, always consider these indicators: new businesses, infrastructure projects, increasing employment opportunities, highly-rated schools, decreasing crime rates, and proximity to parks and cultural attractions.

When you're evaluating the credibility of a hard money lender, here are some key steps and considerations:Checking Credibility:Reputation and Reviews: Look for online reviews and testimonials.

Every property in a location can perform differently based on many different variables.Just find properties you like and evaluate them individually. 

While agreeing that it creates bias, can someone recommend another real estate site that includes the crime map layer as it is critical for evaluating a rental purchase, especially as an out-of-state investor?

Many local groups will step in to find and fund "first time etc" qualified hard working homeowners though, find great tennants to get in your units if you go this route, & set it up correctly.If states like Indiana are pushing that they are "tiny home friendly" (in that case I've heard of the log cabin law, but don't necessarily know if that's directly applicable to community-scale developments).

 @Shravan Hemchand Prior to pulling the trigger on a Cost Seg study, you should evaluate 2 things:1 - How much net additional deprecation tax deductions a Cost Seg study would provide: Best way to get this is by requesting a free feasibility analysis from a Cost Seg provider.

I've recently been turned on to the space after having difficulties finding multifamily properties that will cash flow in my area (to @Paul Moore point about the market being overheated).How did you go about finding and evaluating storage opportunities?

It is hard to evaluate this deal without more of the underwriting assumptions shown.  

Overnight GuestI am keeping a log of which days the guest stays over.

Is there a way to accurately evaluate the repair cost of this kind of issue?