Thinking of things like keypad door entry, thermostats, fire detectors, water leak alarms...

Places like Houston might have more rapid appreciation but the cost of entry will reflect that.

Use Zillow and rentometer.com to get data and analyze a few from your home to see what type if returns there are.If these meet your investment criteria then start looking in person. 

I also read through the replies about subscription sites and no one said it resulted in good data.    

Hi All,I'm a long-distance investor and a foreign citizen with several rentals in Cleveland and Florida.lately, I was looking to extract some equity from my estate to roll it over to more properties by utilizing the known BRRRR method.I'm looking for a comprehensive data source to get me started and get the bits and bytes of this operation, mainly the financing aspect and a list of recommended borrowers to touch base with. 

This has prevented home prices from crashing because people could stay in their homes.From the data I'm seeing, I don't see a major crash happening anytime soon. 

The value contribution indicated is based on a survey of real estate agents and is not actually based on anything quantified from market data. 

Being able to correctly analyze a deal is entirely dependent on the data being accurate.  

I started this project hoping i could efficiently review the most amount of properties in order to maximize the potential investment options to bid at auction....this is what I have so far.First thing i did was to create the listings, I matched the properties been auctioned with their corresponding pics and the property specs (rooms, size, floors etc.).Second, for each property I automated the data collection process from public records and created a report with: Foreclosure info, owner info, taxes data, liens including mortgages , satisfaction of mortgages,  assigments, violations and permits and court dockets.This data is updated daily to capture new filings (specially the dockets to capture bk and motions to cancel sales)Now that i have the data i can apply my personal "preferences" to go through the report and in a few minutes discard  properties that have certain attributes I "dislike". 

You don’t really have that many entries for a rental for a whole year, especially when it’s rented...