Since it was published in 2005, I’m curious if people find any of it outdated based on changes put in place after the crash in 2008?

Here is some food for thought on your MSA regarding HPI analysis from Forecast-Chart.com:3rd Quarter, 2011 Housing Statistics: Boise City, IdahoPart 1: HOUSING MARKET FORECAST12 Month Forecast: DOWNForecast Accuracy: 78%Forecast-Chart.com publishes forecasts for the trend in home prices in 380 Metropolitan Statistical Areas.

They publish a not-so-parseable PDF of the listings and then have a separate website containing the list of lots that are still available, which I and other investors have found to be a pain in the neck.Are all of your lots in the LA vicinity?

I had the same question after recently reading a Bigger Pockets published book: 'Short-Term Rental, Long-Term Wealth' by Avery Carl.

Has someone published something somewhere touting multifamilies in Las Vegas??

In Canada for example, CMHC published a report in 2017 that identified that 49% of all rental housing is owned by individual investors (non-corporate) and no doubt a good chunk of the corporate investors are also individuals who have set up corporations for liability management.Consumer grade IoT devices are generally good enough and cheap enough to use and can actually improve your net operating income (NOI), comfort and property aesthetics.

The owner did not account for management service in his published numbers but I used the numbers I was going to use. 

IMO, that can be detrimental to the foreclosing lender, because if the lender is willing to let a property go for far less than the published debt - many bidders would just ignore the property that is over-encumbered compared to market value.

I'm currently in the publishing world, and I would like to begin investing in real estate.

@Aleksandra DrawsDisclaimer- I do not know the area but here is how I would evaluate an area I was not familiar with :-Zillow is basically worthless in Texas as we are a non-disclosure state so sales prices are not published- George gave you some valuable comps from the MLS.