The only other way to get this info is to run rent/lease comps yourself (~10-15min), or do enough projects in that area to where you have it.Or for Thousand Oaks, etc:Or if we have a choice between two projects in different markets, I can use this chart to compare the two rental markets:-Basically anything to the right of 0 means the rent price/sf/mo has been growing QoQ, and the height is the current $/sf/mo of that market. 

I now see that lack of knowledge is nothing compared to the cluelessness of investors who purchase tax liens……

I want to help with low-income housing in my community that I know well and I've worked in for many years. lenders sometimes want 3 deals of the same level done.

Also there're more traffic outside the city where the office are compare to traffic inside the city.

The property is zoned as a SFH, but in reality it is a duplex with 1/1 on each side.My lender did an appraisal for the property as a duplex and it came at $497k.

From what you wrote, @Morgan Chan, it looks like the lender’s credit bid was $300K.

It would be interesting if you could compare, but my guess is that there is zero correlation to quality and offering type.  

Cash flow is better here, but appreciation is less (CA is off the charts for this metric compared to most of the country, so it's not that OK is bad- depends on your goals and expectations). 

Is there anything that gives a town a unique geographic or economic advantage/moat compared to another town? 

(other than having cash/equivalent, preliminary title report, and the appropriate deed ready to go 'on hand')The MOST difficult part of this will be getting the lender to provide you with the reinstatement figure to bring the loan current (I do this and take title sub-to because it's actually easier to get the lender to provide a reinstatement than a full payoff).