I didn't take a close glance at the picture at first and was reading the serious responses before I scrolled back up.

If I see a duplex locally and it's going for $690k and rents are at $2100 I know that I'm personally going to scroll right by it (assuming that's a fair price for it).

I can see average prices for competition based on the days on the calendar that I can scroll across.

The PM I originally hired was soooo nice at the beginning, educated me about the PM process, had a good rate, assured me that they had my best interest in mind. Less

I keep my eye on the price as I scroll down the low $/sqft part of the list and when I see something that looks out of place, like a $200k property when everything else is $600k+ then you have a good candidate**- Next I will click on the price at the top to bring the cheapest properties to the top and see if anything looks out of place there.By using these two filter methods, you will pick off homes that are listed either at a good value relative to the size of the house OR you will find the cheaper homes in area.  

Mostly mindless work, but things that need to be done. 

My mindless ramblings are now going to be mispelled mindless ramblings.

Can't speak to Boston particularly... but how many buyers scrolling through Zillow will skip over your house due to the front yard looking like crap?

Now scroll down to see what the median household income level is in this ZIP code.

With all of the articles, youtube videos, and my personal research scrolling through the pages and pages of craigslist, I have yet to understand the magic numbers and factors that would make one option better than the other OR if mixing investments is the way to go.