I disregard those and focus on comps that have a realistic looking calendar where there's a blend of available and booked dates.

I think your best option is to do some kind of blended portfolio into real estate. 

However, they are proposing dissolving that partnership and allowing original investors first opportunity  to participate in providing an additional 22% of our original investment, speculating a hold until 2026 with a 202% return on the new funds, resulting in a "blended return" of about 36% total return of our original+ new invested funds.  

Some of the details that investigators uncovered — escorts, Lakers-game tickets, clandestine meetings, and cover-ups — belong in the plot of a great noir (a genre that has fictionalized some of L.A.’s ugliest truths).

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Your blended rate will be better if you can leave a 1st mortgage in the 5s or mid 6s than doing a cash out refinance. 

You have to remember that you are new, you are unlikely to uncover something new about your market right now so that pocket of homes might have potential being close to development, but other investors are already on or off it for a reason.

Next, I would like to uncover what has rent growth / decline looked like in that city / area overall.

I’d love to hear your experiences on where and how to effectively conduct these searches.What tools or resources have you found most reliable for uncovering any liens, encumbrances, or issues that could affect the property title?

I had my home inspector inspect the property but with the power, water and gas shut off there wasn't too much he would've been able to uncover.