What you should spend your time looking at are market fundamentals such as supply and demand, the strength and diversity of your local economy, and the laws and political trends that are impacting being a land lord.  

If you're looking in neighborhoods near where you live obviously you can just go in person but for those that are farther away it really is a helpful tool.

You can do the same for hiring marketing team members, who can help you place content online to attract investors.When it comes to acquisitions, partnering with other sponsors on deals is a great way to gain real experience and quickly build a reputation for your firm to grow and scale accordingly.Finally, investors should be utilizing technology to automate day to day processes and free up time; Mailchimp is a cheap and useful tool for investor relations communications, HubSpot is a free CRM database that can help you stay in touch with investors, and AirTable is great for company project management and assignment tracking.Do you have any other tips or insights to making the transition?

We can only hope for a big change in leadership, that the city declare bankruptcy and cede its political power to the county and state, some kind of large federal spending program targeting poor areas or some kind of combination.

A google email account includes lots of powerful tools.

For awhile Philadelphia was the best kept secret for a lot of NY investors but as of the last few years there has been a ton of NY money being dumped into philly, especially now because of the Rent control laws that passed here, but there are still deals out there. snap shot of philly - Steady population growth yr over yr - Steady job growth yr over yr - Diverse economy  ( top 3 health care, education & tourism )- Location...  2hrs from NYC "financial hub of the country" &  2(1/2) from Washington DC " the political of hub of the country.

He's do decent work for cheap, and then one day he sobers up and decides to see if he can take you for a ride to fund his next tool purchase.You didn't get a written estimate, so you left yourself open to abuse.

You will learn useful tools throughout school, and be able to use them everywhere, including real estate analysis.

I have also overhauled our entire software architecture and have done a complete re-write of our technology so we can give the tools away for free to support 506(c) raises.  

You see a lot of people simply trying to be the go-between on properties they found using the same tools we do (loopnet, zillow, realtor.com, commercial sale sites).