I used driving for dollars, "data for dollars", and some tax liens+foreclosures.

Can someone explain how to evaluate if a multi family is a deal or not without having access to the historical financial data?

This is in Indianapolis not rural areas with limited Google Data. 

But it is just an impression, I never really looked at the data for property tax for Hoboken in detail.Are the properties you are looking at for rental in Hoboken?

Ensure you include all of the expense calculations when number crunching (property management, vacancies, maintenance, capital expenditures, property taxes, and insurance).

Looking at improving the data, access to the data to improve deal and deal analysis. 

Some are very specialized, like WPG (malls in B & C cities) or NXRT (apartments in B and C neighborhoods) or REITs that are self-storage facilities, medical tenants, or cloud data centers. 

@abrahamanderson Don't listen to others that say "stay in your lane" and out of playgrounds.This IS your lane, it's an amenity for your residents and as far a liability is concerned, reach out to your insurance provider to ensure you are properly insured and you should be fine. 

By ensuring that each tenant member is capable of covering the lease by them selves, you are at less chance of risk of non-payment, should things go sideways. 

Starting to have some discussions with turnkey providers and trying to soak up all I can here on the boards.One thing I'm wondering about is whether it's possible to access a lot of data pertinent to de-risking investment decisions.For example, one of the big question marks it seems is how good and headache-free your property management company is.