In there you can get a lot of useful info (employment stats, demographics, trends, market rents, pro forma number etc) that you can use to directly apply to your deal if it's in the same area, or as a guide for items you need to research.

Hey Guys,I have done a demographic overview on the area I live in to try and narrow down the best place to start my real estate investing.

I was not big enough to be making 2 to 5 million dollar loans.. so many of those people lost them.. and this current crop of syndicators who have been scooping this stuff up.. this is where it came from.. there and mismanagement of course you can always count on mismanagement to run a MF asset into the ground  LOL and create a buying opportunity for the next group or investor.Or they bought low C and had no clue as to how to manage that tenant demographic and they got schooled.

Find out if this unit mix fits the target renter demographic in the area it is.What are the market rents for that unit mix?

I think it would be interested to point out the demographics, reasons people choose the city to come and live, what are the drivers behind that, urbanization and etc..

@Marco Santarelli  The deals I am doing in SAC I would consider C neighborhoods and the same as most neighborhoods in the mid west that are sold turn key same demographic by and large.. the major difference I see is we can actually sell a home retail I these areas I put one into contract yesterday 10 days on market not a bidding war but we got full price. .. where as in the rental heavy parts of the mid west the exit is generally to another investor.. very little retail activity.. so the liquidity ( which for me is very important) is much better on the West coast .

I have no knowledge of your market or demographics.  

id=4708#Type_of_Stru...this one on resident demographics... says we have 117 million living units in the USand has some state stats as well as national #s

Trash, landscaping weeds in the sidewalk cracks, the appearance of people hanging around, Are all subjective and difficult to add to a formula.Some things like; the types of cars in the neighborhood, crime statistics, Populations growth or decline and other various demographic info, Permits for new construction, forecosures, etc etc while quantifyable are not easily and consitently found from a relliable source.

While I like the area from a demographic and economic perspective, I, like you, had thought about the cost of materials and potential for labor shortages.