Type in the address of the property and it will give you a detailed view of recent crimes in the area, please see the following links to check crimes that have occurred recently.You can see the links for he various areas of the Vegas Valley below:The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police website covering Clark County and the City of Las Vegas, has a page where you can search crime statistics.

Is there anywhere I can find statistics on real estate/rental trends for the area?

For instance, there was an often quoted statistic before the mortgage crisis on how low home defaults were and everyone modeled this in without thinking that by the world those statistics existed in was not the world of today.

Does anybody know where I can get a hold of state-by-state statistics of market trends (more recently speaking, "downtrends")?

Agents will probably be touting the statistic that shows the median new home price increasing by 4% from last August to $338,560.

does anyone know of a website where I can find the average days on market statistics for an area?

I don't know where to get the statistics for prices and if they are decreasing in areas or not..

I know the value of good hard statistics, but I just haven't put forth the resources to actually do this.Anyone have experience with Shark Bait Software?

One thing about statistic though.

What I have learned from accounting, economics, marketing, business math, writing ... you get my gist ... is immeasurable.People say education is overrated, yet statistics prove those with degrees earn more.