They are no doubt managing these huge portfolios strictly on a spreadsheet basis and will have huge datasets in which they can spot trends or money sinks and drive out costs from their management profile.

I'm a new investor in Atlanta looking to grow the network.

Needy or entitled tenants (or worse needy entitled tenants) will drive you crazy. 

Given all of the population growth projections for the Vegas metro, I think it's hard to call this the top of the market now.  

I don't care about curb appeal or estimated growth as I don't plan to sell and trying to project 20 yrs out is not realistic.

Ie if you own 5 150K homes and there is 5% price growth then you get 5% on 5 homes instead of on 1 home. 

(Omaha, NE)I want to work through a specific part of town block by block, and I want to find some assistance in portions of the 5 steps below, and help maintaining a master of results:1) Finding leads (Driving for dollars via google street view, craigslist for rent, listsource, MLS, other)2) Evaluating Leads (Filtering and storing, does it match my criteria?)

I've looked at the general sense of income in certain areas around the midwest but are there specifics on how to exactly to analyze the particular cities job growth, base salaries, and rent to income ratios?

David Sanford I think you can grow the business faster and larger with a partner since two people working together can do more.

We drive the neighborhoods we are interested in when we can.