A little about me- I'm a 25 year old software engineer that works for a real estate statistics company.

@bob bowling  @Andrey Y.That's a misleading statistic if there ever was one.  

It is an RBI intel product that provides statistical information crunched through MRIS.

I should preface this by saying I'm a statistics junkie.That said, I found the following website yesterday while trying to do research for properties in an area I'm not geographically knowledgeable in.http://www.bestplaces.net/housing/city/colorado/pu...While I still want to dive in deeper, this was a great website for figuring out median incomes, median rents, vacancy rates, crime stats, school quality and pretty much any other information I might want to know about a city.As always, your mileage may vary.

Those HUD numbers are from statistics taken from lots of housing units all over the place, and no single one of us could gather that data from our own units. 

I want to know are there any research materials or real estate journals I can get that will give me up to date information on trends or statistics on a given area ??? 

So unless hes a bold faced liar, I feel good I can get the $2,400/month rent. 

In the market all you can do is lose your principal and if you stick to low cost index funds, statisticly speaking, you are never going to lose all of it. 

You just struck me as a nice guy and you were bold enough to ask." * Learned how to launch a website - not hard but definitely time-consuming ^^ * And of course, helping to organize this meetup that continues to attract investors from all over who are interested in learning, networking, and empowering themselves with knowledge and contacts.Part of the reason I write these posts is that my path into real estate investing has been 'non-conventional' and maybe it can help others looking for a way to start out.I couldn't do the traditional driving for dollars as I'm an ocean away.

"the lack of deals out there"  A local realtor James Orr does real good market statistics and fix and flip volume I believe is up this year over last in Northern Colorado.