From this data, you can utilize a website bestplaces.net that will give you a breakdown of the percentage of homes that sold, in various price ranges, for a given zip code.

Of course it's early days and I need to research what consequences of holding properties in the US if I moved back to the UK or Australia first.I guess you check for flood areas here:http://www.harriscountyfemt.org/I found this decent little graph on historic data for Houston.

At the end of the day, you may have ten properties paid off, but it is likely that the data will not come close to your original spreadsheets.

Once you are under contract you can get more accurate data for the expenses.Bottom line is you will always have some unknown data until you get the property under contract to start finding the details.

However, after going to a local BP meet up, I met a gentleman who recently joined a small boutique Commercial Real Estate Firm.

I'm just starting too and I don't know much, but I do know you need to know a lot about a property, and you can't rely on Zillow and the current occupant to give you the information.I didn't try this, but supposedly the trial is free for, I suspect, one report--who knows:http://www.datatree.com/try-totalviewAt the very least, there is a sample report that you can view that shows the sort of data you need.Kudos on jumping in, but be careful!

I have no data to back that feeling up though.As for myself, we have only done 1 rehab since joining in 2014. 

We've just started the increased output, so I don't have any data on that yet.

Their S-11 has a lot of good information about how they analyze the SFR market and why they think it's a solid long-term strategy:https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1687229/00...My guess is they went public just to get some more capital.

. - There is a lot of information required, especially from a first time commercial borrower from now being in a lenders data base.