The negative cashflow should not be a big problem for me since I can easily fund it.

The way I (and many others) see data is that it helps make more informed diDemographics: Identify market segments & trends.GDP & Economic Growth: County-level GDP changes to assess economic vitality.Poverty Metrics: Analyze economic challenges.Construction Activity: Easily predict market supply.Occupational Diversity: Forecast housing & commercial needs.Education Insights: Understand community stability.Real Estate Trends: Identify property value & rental cycles.and there is so much more to consider.

Willing to pay for functionality that let's me do this on my iPhone quickly and easily.  

There’s a big difference between disagreeing with someone’s methods, promises, and forecasts, and detecting actual fraud.I’m not sure that for many of the gurus we call out that fraud is so easily detected, let alone proved.  

Define, "investor-friendly" agent please.In our experience we've found that +95% of agents only have experience dealing with owner-occupied transactions - which are mostly EMOTIONAL decision based.You can ID these types of agents easily by asking them:1) If they are RE investors themselves.

I’m concerned that contractors out of state could easily take advantage of you never being on site to keep the contractors accountable 

If they are professional, they can explain this quickly and easily.

It is inexpensive and you would easily make the money back by picking up more clients. 

I don't think it makes sense to invest in an area where property values and replacement cost start to approach or even intersect.Milwaukee is easily missunderstood by people who don't live here. 

Unit billing can become a bit complex, but will probably pay for itself easily in increased rent you can ask.