I've been doing research on all things software for our industry and here are some notes I've taken that should help you:Property Management / AccountingQuickbooks pro “I'd love to use quickbooks pro but they won't allow me to import expense data, nor allow subdivision of income/expenses as I would like.”

Rental rates- You have a realtor w/ access to data & h/she should be able to tell you what the market will stand w/ respect to rents.Are you in over your head- My 1st reaction to this was yes.  

Just last month I had someone go from "Insufficient data, no FICO score" to >800 in a month.

Hey Guys,This is my first post so I welcome criticism and suggestions for improvement in presenting this data :) The listing details are below along with my cash flow analysis. 

That is the reason why we have data privacy laws and why lenders make you sign a gazillion documents. 

Better yet check Airdna for the average length of stay in that area, see what a reasonable occupancy target is, and estimate based on those two data points.

Pricelabs takes data from other STRs nearby and shows me how they performed over the past year.

@Michael LeI remember seeing a graph based on historical data on Marcus Millichap's site showing that interest rates do generally trend with cap rate.

I wrote a computer program to scrape data off of craigslist, Zillow, Facebook, and our public mls.

If you compare the metro data, Syracuse is slightly "better" but not enough to do out-of-town investing.One other note about Syracuse: I would argue that it a totally different class of market than Philly and Minneapolis.