There's a much lower cost of entry to get into a market if you buy leaseholds.

Absolutely no entry inside the property other than the times specified in the contract.

Give us some data.....where are you, how much do you have saved, what is your purchase price, min ROI, Etc...?

You can pay someone to scrape the data for certain types of units in a market. 

The data I see breaks down Brooklyn into quadrants but not specific neighborhoods...

Even if your location poses more challenges with higher barriers to entry, don't let that discourage you.

Bar of entry is reasonable too

I am fairly new to the Bigger pockets community, while I have been listening in to the podcast when I get the chance, I have not made any blog entries or spent too much time on the website yet.

When we fund short term rentals we actually base the 30Y note off the long term market rental data.

Meanwhile, sales of new construction single-family homes recently hit a six-month high, rising 14% to a seasonally adjusted rate of 800,000, according to the latest data from the U.S.