Regardless of the company you select, their reports are generated from one of those three.You can always go directly to those companies as well if you only need reports. 

Which list of metrics do you use to select an area?

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Not only to keep things moving but also providing guidance on where to buy materials and contractor selection.

Imagine if an app existed in which you could select a metro U.S. city and it populated a bunch of metrics relevant to real estate investing markets (e.g. population growth, unemployment, crime, job diversity, median house price, average rent, vacancy rate, etc).

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You could also try the Washoe Country Bar Associations list by practice area for real property lawyers (where it says "select a category", choose "real property"):https://wcbar.org/lawyers/The Nevada Bar Association has a referral service, but I don't know how likely you are to find someone who gets investors:https://www.nvbar.org/lawyerreferral/lawyer-referral-information-service/real-estate/Best of luck,David

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However, if you prefer to do the free way then you can still collect all the data on recently sold properties and select the comparable ones.