I looked at the website of our local REIA and to me it really had the feel of an info-mercial, so I've stayed away.

Before buying or renting in an unfamiliar neighborhood, you should check the following two sites: SpotCrime, AreaVibes,These sites provide valuable information, including Livability Scores, which cover aspects such as crime rates, employment, health, housing, schools, shopping, and more.well, anything can happen anywhere.

One of the sites I like to check (https://apartmentloanstore.com/seattle/washington/cap-loan-r...) peg this between 5.15% and 5.70% (assuming it's in the suburbs).

Average rental rates, vacancies, competition, growth, appreciation, etc..Ive heard of scrolling through Zillow and collecting information by looking at properties for sale/rent but was wondering if there is a site where all of this information is easily accessible or any ideas for better ways to go about it.Thanks in advance!

This is not yoursituation, but just to walk through the different thought processesin Holding/Selling that a friend of mine is going through.Helped my friend getinto the Self Storage business and walked him through the wholeprocess from evaluating the market, selecting a site, developing thesite, systems, financing, insurance, etc.

If you are just downloading data room info from brokerage sites and plugging into a model, you are refining your skills on the "act", which is certainly necessary and helps make the process faster.  

Now they want to put the properties into RE Gain Fund, LLC UpREIT (which appears to have been established in 2023). 

I would suggest either talking with a local bank/credit union about refinancing your existing portfolio and/or one that shows they do MHP loans on their website.

Several factors indicate the company is not that concerned about efficiency or ease of customer process: the website, a process that seemed to focus on one issue at a time instead of all issues at once, and consistently poor communications and lack of common sense from the loan analyst we were assigned.It started off very well with the initial point of contact, Austin Lornson, who did a fine job of explaining the general refinancing process, responding quickly and thoroughly to our questions.

There is a ring camera system that has a job site security package as well some of my investors use for their projects do not have internet it works off cellular connection.