Weekends for a lot of people are usually tied up with kids sports, family functions and trips.

Thanksgiving and Christmas are the slowest time of the year.

  - Outside of that, I'd encourage you to visit cities you are considering investing, and get on the ground even for a weekend. 

Multiple weekends?

They reported a window sill being taken off and it would appear someone broke in over the Christmas week.

Just be aware.I just quoted out this scenario to a borrower over the weekend:$130k purchase price30% down Payment$91,000 Loan Size780 Credit Score5 year declining prepayment penalty6.875% is the lender's Par Rate (so no discount points added, only broker fee added). 

There are often weekends or holidays that finding even a basic motel for the night in some areas is nearly impossible (especially if you have pets!) 

Generally larger commercial properties and shopping centers are easier to classify with hard and fast rules, but to the points above the residential areas really move very quickly and have way more nuance than most people care to admit.zip codes are generally way too large for my liking at least in my market to provide any kind of insights other than macro level economics but even then highways or rivers that cut through a zip code can end up with totally different trade areas.we can get pretty granular with cellphone data and with grocery center data to understand the trade areas and their true boundaries, but that kind of data pull is generally only cost effective for investors doing larger scale projects or developments, and honestly we still just end up getting on the ground and feeling it out, so I generally tell people that the money is better spent on a plane ticket and weekend trip in the area you are looking rather than any kind of "trade area" level data studies.and generally B class in 1 area means something different than another. 

Check out Brian's book The Hands-off Investor on sale THIS WEEKEND for Black Friday.

Thanks and Merry Christmas Sure, just DM'd you.Merry Christmas!