I was considering the idea of keeping any expenses incurred (travel, miles driven, even a % of my home office deduction) out of all of the LLCs and reflecting these in my tax return under a real estate sole proprietorship business with no rent/income (the expenses for the 100% ownership LLC would of course still be reflected in that return).Doing this would create a more profitable return for the 100% LLC which would provide a higher DSCR to comply with my lenders requirements; however, the net impact to the IRS would still be the same on the final 1040.

I don't know, I need previous data to do comparison.

Here's a few websites I've been using to research the market:http://www.houston.org/economy/https://www.recenter.tamu.edu/data/housing-activityhttps://www.har.com/content/mls

I've inputted data from a property I'm looking at right now as an example.

I've checked many of the expected places like US Census, HUD, and city-data and haven't really found the level of detail I"m looking for, which is generally at the census tract level...but would prefer an ability to zero down a bit more too for one section of the city in particular.

Not as important as it used to be due to companies like Redfin, but it's still helpful for further data and sorting. 

Hi @Christine Mwai,Private money and portfolio ARMs might go for it.The big agencies, Fannie/Freddie/FHA/VA/USDA, have to make one-size-fits-all rules based in no small part on aggregate data.

I am interested in a number of out of state locations (and I'm sure each of has your eye on a number of places as well) so it makes sense to me that we should partner up locally to share our knowledge of other cities, share data, plan trips to investigate, etc.  

I've never had one make me transfer the data to their form.  

Use a Realtor to get comps and rental market data.