Over the past two years I have not spent very much in other opertaing expenses and maintenance so I have been lucky.Either way I am learning to factor in those operating costs into any future analytics for other properties the more I learn.

In addition to these reasons for possibly pursuing appraisals as a career over agent is my personality type - I am very process driven and analytical.

If we jump in and really become bit more analytical.

Now we are much more analytical about what we are going to purchase.You need to make sure you perform the correct analysis on whatever aspect of real estate you go into no matter what.

If/When HomeAway starts opening up their data I think we can really create some solid pricing analytics that will be within a few % points of reality I bet!  

I did an internship with a commercial real estate company this past summer and from what I understood they use an online analytics tool.

It diversifies their risk and limits their liability that way and also allows them to benefit from our experience as fund managers, as well as our team, analytics, etc

I know I need more than just one analytic to size up a property but I’m just curious. 

You can look up these names but you'll find that they, like Costar, are very expensive.Real Capital Analytics TREPPYardi MatrixREIS You could however read up on the your target markets to find out trends and transactions through publications like:CPExecutiveREBusinessBisnowGlobe St.NREINAIOPNMHCLocal business journalsHope this helps!

Rented/Weiss Analytics just released their top 100 vacation rental markets for 2021 and the top 5 were: 1.