Email me ;-)I have to say my lessons learned follow the same pattern (although no need for Green Berets to collect the rent) @Mary B There is enough room for an organizer to take the lead.

(**And even the migration patterns of homeless can collectors from the park to the recycling yard, bypassing our street** ;)  Start with the crime map.

If you look at the gentrification patterns over the last 20+ years, all other options have been exhausted.

What matters most when you are trying to step up your professionalism is knowing the market in a deep meaningful way, like the traffic patterns, the movements of employers, the local political landscape, demographic shifts, etc.

One of my tenants did the same - painted a room and added a pink "strip" pattern in the kitchen. 

It's probably easy to show a pattern if I saw the data - or to see that I'm wrong.

Full disclosure, there are about a million things that go into power consumption, weather patterns, etc. 

There are definitely some recognizable patterns in the market, huh?

The pattern of property valuation being disjointed from underlaying economic principals is neither novel, nor unprecedented ... many cities have such periods ... some, like Sydney and Hong Kong still are.  

I admit I keep to the B-ish "good blocks" though, so I guess that does fit the pattern..