A good indicator of this would be analyzing the HUD Fair Market Rents year over year.

Any sober living investors out there willing to let me pick their brain on how to underwrite a potential deal?

Quote from @Jonathan Grzeszczyk: David Greene has a series (Sold, Skilled, Scale) that teaches agents how to run their business like a business.

Add maintenance/cap ex, vacancy, PM, misc and this is likely negative more than $500/month even if self managed (much more than the negative $200 that you indicate you are ok with) 2) if you are behind on mortgage, how are you going to handle being negative $200/month, or more like negative $500/month?

There is a lot you need to know to be a successful investor and landlord and while nothing beats doing it -  as the best way to learn - you really need to have a good understanding of the fundamentals and the ins and outs.

Chris,What are you looking to finance or accomplish I ask because with a quick Yelp review there are some negative reviews.

That is not likely unless there is more to this than what you are telling us.Cheers!

I'm data driven and would love to immerse myself in IL, AL, MC specific property, demographic and investor-centric data sources the same way I've done in my previous area of focus.

So we often have to remediate this and touch paint.

I am looking to buy Section 8 properties in Los Angeles.