Once the agents get in, they lock the door to the data and more licenses.

Trevor I am a young strongly driven person looking for new and creative ways to become part of the exciting and expanding real-estate world.

A little bit about myself for anyone interested:I'm looking to be a buy-and-hold investor while continuing my regular job - I am looking to put money to work and would be potentially interested in doing so as part of someone else's deal; I would consider both SFR and MFR deals.I am an investor in my day job (currently private equity / buyouts, soon to become public equities) so may have some bad habits, or at least industry-specific ones, to break; I generally anticipate being relatively analytical / systematic in looking at dealsMy family held a few properties when I was growing up - I have experience personally doing refurbishing work and secondhand experience with property management activities (this will hopefully help me as contextual information, I don't anticipate taking on an active role in refurb or property management in the near future)Right now, I am trying to educate myself on the process of deal sourcing (MLS, wholesaler buyer lists, etc.) and market data sources; in particular, I would really appreciate any input on good sources for publicly available market-level data in manipulable format such as Excel or .csv as well as input from anyone who uses a systematic deal-screening approach both on their criteria and how they get reliable / quality data into a screening-friendly formatThanks for everything people have already contributed. 

Always options available...1) Blanket Commercial Mortgage w/partial release clause (Max LTVs 75% per property and property must produce a DSCR of at least 1.25 with most lenders up to 1.43 for the rest)2) Hard Money Cash Out (no limit on properties and not credit driven BUT should be used for short term and only if the property still cash flows with the higher rates - usually between 50-65%LTV)3) Fannie Mae offers "Limited Cash Out" for 5-10 Investment Properties with a 720FICOGet with a good Mortgage Broker OR develop a good relationship with your local bank provided they do "Portfolio Loans".Good Luck!

Based on those two data points there is no deal.Understandably you are anxious to get in the game, and may have even jumped in without the resources of BP, but you cannot work the property and risk the loss of capital, for the reward of $20/month.  

I have been compiling this type of data for the past few months in the city and the suburbs of Philly.

You can find vacancy data by MSA at https://www.census.gov/housing/hvs/data/rates.html and you can find it by geography at www.factfinder.census.gov.  

This is done on an APOD for (Annual property operating data)Evaluating commercial properties is not a forum post answer.

B&B's are extremely operator driven especially if you have an F&B component.  

But, instead of doing nothing its best to dedicated a couple of hours on a weekend and do something with the data.