(You can not)I will go out on a limb, that 99.9% of anyone asking you for a proof of funds prior to talking about firm sale price, which would mean providing a potential purchaser with enough data to make a price decision, which could be subject to due diligence, is a broker that has little to no experience with the asset class.I wouldn't waste much time on the matter.

If you wait long periods to get data organized you can miss important stuff or it will backup and be a daunting task.

Excel provides the ability to track this data in a manner that is customizable to the user.I could probably set up several QB reports for each of these needs, but there's no way to overlay the various sets of data using colors, simple sorting, pivot tables, etc. -- you can do that in Excel.

Notice they have not yet asked for money but they have requested some personal data.

There site seemed to have more data and detailed information.

"Based on census data you should have __% percentages of each race in your apartments and you don't so it looks like racial discrimination."  

Use Zillow and rentometer.com to get data and analyze a few from your home to see what type if returns there are.If these meet your investment criteria then start looking in person by contacting the listing agent.

I'm not sure  that i've ever met a successful or wealthy person that had never capitalized off of others lack of knowledge or misfortune.

I am in the initial research phases of finding a viable market (city/neighborhood), and then locating properties within that segment.I have read other people's posts that mention using the US Census Data or City-Data.com and look at population growth and job growth as contributing factors to determine if an area would be good to invest in; however, I am unsure where to find this information on those websites.

Surely there's enough empirical data out there to be able to narrow it down to one solid area that beats out the rest?