But BP did publish a book that could serve as a good primer to improve your knowledge and get you off to a good start: The Book on Estimating Rehab Costs. 

@Christopher FreyA lot of the counties publish the list online.

Again in Florida it may be different (although having a Tampa agent come on would be a big help)I went ahead and looked up the rules for the MLS in Tampa and the following is listed:"Note 1: The multiple listing service shall not have a rule requiring the listing broker to disclose the amount of total negotiated commission in his listing contract, and the association multiple listing service shall not publish the total negotiated commission on a listing which has been submitted to the MLS by a participant.

Attorney Mark Warda has written numerous Wiley house publishing books on Land Trusts.

Our published prices are for 12 months but we'll do 6 monht for +$75, 3 month for +$125 and month to month for +$250The reason for the increase is there is a lot of cost that goes into a new lease. 

The name CASE SHILLER is an Noble Prize winning economist, and referenced many times in articles and published news organizations.Matt, do you want to guess at trend below is good or bad?

They have a class and publish a book for landlords. 

I had been a published author for all of four years, and in two of those years my expenses were greater than my income.

Zillow openly explains this at https://www.zillow.com/zestimate/ and publishes their median error rates and other stats for some major metro areas at https://www.zillow.com/zestimate/#acc.The good news is, it's relatively easy to validate how accurate it is for your market:Have your realtor pull 50 or 100 active and sold homes in the market/neighborhood you want to analyze.Compare actual asking and sold prices to the Zestimate for each one, put them in a spreadsheet, and develop some averages. 

Account Closed published a blog post on this recently.