Use Redfin their data is 10x better, because they pull from MLS well, whereas Zillow tries to pull from everywhere but does so poorly.

I’ve been using apartments.com and searching apartment communities that meet my investment criteria in my target markets and then compiling my own data base once I determine their PM company.

The 2-3 years you experience negative will likely be outweighed by the gain in value. 

And, when properly maintained, even though you get a depreciation write-off, the asset often appreciates in value. 

We watched the market very carefully over the last month, we have been sharing the data at our weekly virtual zoom meetups, and decided to move forward and closed on it April 14th. 

Curious if you have had any luck with it and if it provides the most up to date data.

Relevancy will be based on the keywords and meta data included in your website. 

I have verified some of them from public data. 

It is a great service for the kansas city market but not sure if it has all of the data you are looking for for your market?

@Darius White Rentometer, zillow, city-data, and the US Census are great resources.