Usually you can access from their websites reports and other info.Search the local business journal search for housing related articles and job growth.Loopnet acces local info from several property packages.The local REIA clubs are also a great source.Paul

@Salvatore Lentini Dayton Business Journal keeps a pretty good tab on what's happening.

@Ron J. did you see the Jacksonville Business Journal 2 weeks ago?

Guests on the podcasts say they do daily journal entries and go back to see how they have changed and grown.Let us know what you put in your journal entries.I have zero creativity and typically tunnel vision so sadly the first time I hear of a way to do something that's the way I'm going to investigate getting it done.

It seems that I should create the Journal Entry from the HUD1 data.  

@Bert Isidore local business journals and newspapers, chamber of commerce, current investors that are in the area.

I have lived in Bayonne, Union City, and Jersey City (Heights and Journal Square).

The basic stuff is that they know what needs to be reclassed, adjusting journal entries, reconciliation of bank accounts, AR, AP, general ledger, subledgers, CAM reconciliation, true-up for CAM and Real Estate Taxes, rent/cam/tax escalation, proper allocation of the invoices and receipts. 

@Kisha Ulysse no prison list but New York Law Journal has a couple of probate filings which @Kerry Baird suggested.

I day traded currency futures in a past life and always kept an online journal to keep me accountable, share what I was doing with the community and have a little bit of fun.