I would also recommend using city-data.com to find economic drivers in the various parts of Charlotte.

I'm very bullish on the Bay Area and its economic drivers.

Hey y’all, I am analyzing multi family properties getting my reps in, as properties come through the funnel I use data.census.gov to find economic drivers for target the property but it’s very tedious, I was wondering what others have used to stream line the process or make finding the data more convenient ?

Paying mailmen, or UPS drivers, or anybody to tell you about houses they see and then paying them if you get a deal.  

You sound like the type of person who doesn't tip their pizza delivery driver.

The idea is that this allocation would not be your main income driver, but it would balance off the public markets when they were doing badly.However, in my opinion a lot of the advice was skewed by the fact that the majority of traditional advisors only understand and know about public markets and many of them know nothing about directly owned real estate.

Many thanks.I recommend the major cities in Ohio:-Columbus, great for appreciation, pp is a bit higher around $220k for multifamily-Cincinnati, has a mix of cash flow and appreciation, average multifamily around $180k-Cleveland, has alot of cashflow potential, average multifam around $140kThere are other smaller markets like Dayton, Akron, and Toledo, however there is not alot of economic drivers to those areas.

Looking for appreciation come to Columbus, there are still 1% deals, but the more attractive part is the population growth and other economic drivers! 

If it were in California, I'd probably say don't worry about it, in California, undocumented residents can get drivers licenses, legally, so maybe it's not as bad as we think?

, pay stubs, employer info, drivers license, etcMake sure all the info adds up, call employer to verify employment (I've seen fake paystubs before!)