I have been investing since 2008 and have purchased everything from single families and duplexes, to 250+ unit multifamily, to assisted living, to shopping centers, to industrial and more.

If you want to understand 5-year outlook, I'd look for multifamily construction data in your area to understand what level of new units is and will be coming online in the near future. 

There are a ton of online resources.You could also look at the Arcade1 cabinets as well as the Gamer Legends stuff.

Monitoring open windows isn't feasible in my case, but I can definitely monitor daily electricity usage online  

For contact management like that its awesome to search for specific types of people and locations or just data like "how long does it take to foreclose in texas".We have some other use cases as well that we use to track not only ours but competitors results online and learning what does and does not work for different aspects of the business.

Believe me, I’ve seen my share of ups and downs: from navigating interest rate spikes to figuring out out-of-state managment back when online tools weren’t half as good as they are now.

Next piece of advice is shop this deal around with someone through the forums or local real estate groups (google for your area). 

They see it online, it’s nice inside, but the street it’s on is rough.

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I think they just started offering it again.Dyches Boddiford has a good course https://assets101.com/events/hard-money-lending-online/I and several others have taken it.