We would have just been statistics in an ocean of bad mom-and-pop investor numbers.BEFORE you aggressively focus on acquiring property in a questionable neighborhood, one of the best things to do is to gain some useful deep information about it, as I did.

I’m not saying most can afford to buy houses, but statistics indicate they are a huge group that is buying at a later age due to more student debt and slower career advancement compared to previous generations.

A lot of information regarding crime statistics, and other information can be gathered on-line now.

I graduated from University of California, Santa Barbara with a B.S. in statistical science and never really wanted to work full time for anyone else (though I am at the moment).

. : )Also, in Hawaii at least, the Hawaii Tourism Authority keeps track of all sorts of visitor statistics like how many visitors came to the islands, which islands they stayed on, whether they stayed in hotels, condos, or with friends, whether their stay was for business, pleasure, blah blah blah.

I don't know what Boulder is as it is it's own submarket and I haven't seen statistics.

- one month of random home value fluctuations is going to be more than $500, meaning it is within the margin of error where random chance means far more than what is being negotiated over, meaning it is statistically equal to zero dollars.Deals cannot be allowed to fall apart over statically zero dollars. 

It is interesting to see the difference in statistics between Ireland and the US.

I think Redfin.com is the easiest for quick statistics.

In that vein, we've begun doing some deep analysis (I'm a financial analyst - I play with statistics for a living.