.#4 Compile Your Prices into a Spreadsheet or Estimating SoftwareOnce you start to get a better understanding of Labor and Material costs you will want to store this data into a spreadsheet or software that you can use to help you streamline the estimating process.The Book on Estimating Rehab Costs comes with a spreadsheet that you can use to help you populate your own database of labor pricing and material pricing.

Compile the data of your choosing and run it through SPSS.

@GS ThandiCmhc provides moderately accurate data.

Make up pretty packages full of all the data and walk to the next auction.

Finally getting the motivation to work on a project due for my Master's degree, I sit at my computer and start to analyze the data given to me by my professor.

To me through appraisals, property inspections and on line data, there are a lot of useful tools to conduct a thorough due diligence. 

Many times, they just correct the data for the next assessment year (2016) and call it a day, but you can't be sure until you ask.

I would be curious to see the data though on the homes that get $7,000 more in the Boston market to see if that is true.

If you are interested, I can email you data, you provide the necessary funds and we do a 50/50 split when its sold.

Hi,I think all of the major online RE sales sites have local market data/stats.I particularly like Trulia's maps:http://www.trulia.com/real_estate/Oakland-Californ...http://www.trulia.com/real_estate/Oakland-Californ...Recently sold listings are helpful too and I think available from all the major sites: Zillow, Redfin, Trulia etcI found ZipRealty polygon map search very good for current "for sale" notifications in a small area e.g 5 blocks wide and a mile or so long, but Redfin and many other sites are probably just as good for an entire neighborhood.