Credibility is earned here by contributions to the forums or blogs giving specific advice or sharing knowledge, that is what will influence others. 

And, don't let "popularity" be the influencing factor, you can always have popular posters who post bad information that most want to hear or agree with. 

A person who does have a natural knack for Bmore may miss out by being influenced not to go.

Who are the best youtubers, influencers or blogs to follow? 

They don't always get it right or correctly anticipate external influences on a given neighborhood, but there is typically a lot of psychological investment in zoning.  

How much your house is worth depends on the assessed value which is often influenced by sales prices and has nothing to do with rental income.Most cities won't even drive up and down the streets to look for things. 

That can influence a lot of decisions.

GROW THE SPHERE OF INFLUENCE as well as your methods to finding those derivative deals....

If you want to shout nasty names at everyone on this thread who disagree's with you, then might I suggest one thing that took me a while to learn in my personal life... if you want to influence people into your way of thinking, then yelling and bickering at everyone saying they're stupid and inferior when challenged will never get the job done.

During ski season the majority of people are here for the weekend and are limited to just the MMSA whereas during the summer everyone is on vacation (European travels too) with lots to do (golf, hiking, fishing, music festivals, Yosemite,etc).