If you just own a few properties, you can get lucky, and have good steady tenants and almost nothing beyond taxes and insurance.

Especially when you have a stable job on the side with steady income constantly coming in.

My personal opinion is that if you have a steady full time job or a career where you are not absolutely miserable, keep that and use your T4's and savings as your starter in real estate.

Do not fall into the trap of buying cheap properties with a hope of getting steady rental income.

I could see it being used for heat maps on prices, for neighborhood demographics, owners vs. renters, zip code temperatures, new planned entertainment areas that may increase appreciation, cash flow averages for parts of cities. 

In general, steady and holding; here's looking forward to a strong spring 2016!

Instead, I underwrite a lot of deals and see where these assets ultimately trade, so I can see the temperature of the market (that’s really what cap rate is) first hand.I feel like I have to piece my analysis together with google searches one by one, and as an amateur in analyzing the multifamily market, I haven't identified the sources that publish some of these forecasts (however bad you think they might have been) or the ways to get basic raw data - like cap rates and information on typical debt financing structures.You’re right—this data is hard to find, and if you find it without paying for it, it’s worth exactly what you paid.

But there is a steady stream of contract labor trying to spend per diem.

After five steady weeks at 38 percent, the total number of homes available for sale shrank by a slightly larger amount this week.

Our steady stream of listings allows us to market all our listings with the highest level of exposure.