Consequently, many investors end up with properties with amazing cap rates (they just have a very hard time collecting any rent whatsoever).

A title company may be able to provide data to.

or a script to give to your live operator to collect certain information?

Get sold data.

One of the ways is going to be to share you data more freely.

We are currently trying to do that very thing as we have bought several apartment buildings in an OK area and are trying to make them better by improving the property.We have also set up a community group (a mastermind group of sorts) that is now meeting and discussing issues and trying to bring our area up by making improvements.Our goal is to collectively bring our apartments up a notch, which we believe will increase rents, reduce turnover and overall bring a higher price in the long run.If anyone has any additional thoughts or feedback on that process.. please post.

We had a market survey done by Anderson Ecconomic Group and their data suggested that we need 16,000 new homes in our imediate area over the next few years.

"John Carona: Slumlord Senator Gets Caught August 14, 2008 Dallas - State Senator John Carona's carefully sanitized media image was shattered yesterday when Houston TV station KHOU, Channel 11, identified him as CEO of the property management company responsible for "condos in danger of collapse" in spite of having collected management fees for years.

Get at least 5 Qtrs worth of data.

Or if I have to go collect cash rent in those areas.