There's a really good explanation of long and short term capital gains taxes and the influence of your ordinary income here, particularly as altered by the 2018 Tax Cut and Jobs Act.

That will certainly help your credit score as well as reduce your DTI ratio which will translate into better financing terms when you make your first investment. 

Regardless of where the new people emigrating from, I think the challenges are basically the same (increased demand, stress on  infrastructure and services, etc).The real question is how are you going to use this information to alter your investing strategy? 

Maybe you provide them with an opportunity to receive credits from energy savings and find a way to translate that into increased rents?

But how does that translate into Large scale multis?

Emailing the City Planner can also help provide you with great info and translations to what the jargon is on the towns municode, and also may be able to tell you what variances to apply for.

I totally agree with your feelings about the value that platforms bring when its all about the agents that work for agencies with deep pockets, this doesn't always translate to the best service as that is a very relative scenario (mostly depends on your personality actually) and you usually end up missing out on having choice, and I think that is what is the best thing about this particular app, as it's actually free for agents.

From a renter perspective this translates into nicer furnishings, TVs, more cleaning, and this also means they are looking for cleaner living arrangements that have a lower density of people.

This of course translates well to a general understanding of how rentals work too. 

It is free once a year.Michael Pilarski, I use myFICO because I was able to get reports from multiple companies in one for if I sign up for their credit watch alter system.