It was a big test for our partnership and I think we came out better for it.   

If you've spent all of your money and have no way to keep marketing to whatever list you've used and can't buy more data, you are all done for now.

Section 8 does a full financial background test for them to determine how much they can afford of that $1450 rent amount based on their current income.

Depends on the property management company and ownership.Larger property managers will have a "standardized" CoA (we do that for 1000+ units across 5 properties we own and operate), HOWEVER, the person entering the data (typically the onsite PM) still needs to make sure they use the correct accounts for entry....and then the Regional Managers should check the PM's work regularly.

It isn't a bad way to start though if you can't get a mortgage on a property just yet, if you just want to test it out, or if you can find someone that will rent a property to you way below current rent rates 

You can see visitation data, including how the last recession affected tourism (spoiler: not much) here: https://irma.nps.gov/STATS/SSRSReports/Park%20Specific%20Reports/Annual%20Park%20Recreation%20Visitation%20Graph%20(1904%20-%20Last%20Calendar%20Year)?

Their agent did them a disservice or they all knew what was going to happen (looking for the 1 in a million buyer, not caring about the data or neighborhood to put up that kind of money) just to "test it"So ask yourself this question...are you testing, or are you selling? 

Basically any credit driven data on consumers is 'gold'.

We also need to make sure there aren't too many new apartments being built, so we look at those numbers as well.We get all of that data the hard way.

It also has free data and free sales comps.