The problem that Bryan and his seller are trying to solve is in bold within Karen's quote.

What demographics and statistics do you look at before investing in a market?

The other side is in excellent condition and rented to a long term tenant who pays $1,350.00  We are thinking about this as  BRRR but are concerned about the probable lack appreciation, about the crime statistics, about not owning anything else in this town and the  high taxes.  

I would have made it a feature wall with bold accent color and some floating glass panels to fill in to the opening.  

@Kyrin Veritas okay, I guess the honda will work, but statistics show that riding choppers makes people, especially Real Estate people waaaaay more successful.

@Brie Schmidt & @Jay Hinrichs started a website turnkey-reviews.com that provides reviews for companies.I've suggested to them to help provide some market analysis tools for exactly this reason.There are a bunch of posts on BP about how to analyse markets including this oneThen you can go on forever with government statistics...Trulia has a great interactive demographic map at http://www.trulia.com/localOf course none of this has been compiled in any sort of side-by-side way to compare turnkey markets.I think it would be a useful exercise.

Cities usually list those statistics on their websites and are good for finding local employers also.  

This statistic is also decreasing today towards 2003-2004 levels.4) This spread between lower-end and higher-end county HAI’s may be another good, new predictor of market corrections.5) Alameda and Marin counties are closest to being unaffordable, while Sonoma, Contra Costa, & even SF are relative deals.

Expertise in the 3rd domain remains difficult to find (bold marketing claims to the contrary, notwithstanding).

PLEASE LET ME KNOW OF ANY SITES OR ANYTHING I CAN USE TO RESEARCH AND LEARN LOCAL STATISTICS AND DATA THANKS!