The author and article suggests to utilize the climate risk data before committing to an investment and be familiar with specific risks in your area—whether it’s floods, wildfires or heat waves.They recommend these valuable tools to assess these risks:FEMA National Risk Index – Provides a comprehensive overview of natural hazards across the U.S., including floods, earthquakes, and severe storms.USDA Wildfire Risk to Communities – Offers detailed insights into wildfire risks for homes in specific regions, particularly useful for properties near forests or dry areas.Risk Factor – Analyzes flood, fire, and other climate-related threats for individual properties, giving you a risk score.Climate Check – Delivers property-specific climate risk ratings, covering heat, drought, fire, and floods.Do you consider environmental factors like flood and heat when investing?

Myself I had my title company pull every NOD in the MSA which was 4 counties 2.5 mil people. create a spread sheet and they would up date it daily as new NOD's came in.they would give me address  lien position  tax information and lien judgment search.. having our title plants digitized and off shore allows for this data to be gotten in a few clicks.. then when I got my short list I would give them that list about 48 hours before the sale and they would do a date down for me on those..

REIHub pulls in data from TurboTenant for the portfolio, attaches transactions to properties, generates reports, and synchronizes transactions directly from financial accounts, and then some.

I cross-verified this data by directly checking Airbnb as well.

Analytics and Data Science - I can geek out about numbers and data.

I'd say they have a consistent deal flow for you to look at, but certainly don't take the data they provide as your basis for buying/rehabbing/selling.

If you have the long term rental data and the short term rental data. you will have a very good guest of the MTR pricing.

Beyond that, it would be defending all your assumptions with market data.  

The biggest miss I see is some of them giving facts like you can get 1% rule and my investors are doing great...cool, who are there, show us the numbers, show the data.

Or in the early stages ask for more detailed financials for the last rolling 12 months, and come back with that data early in the process to weed out those who won't budge?