If you are searching for market statistics, any agent can provide third party data for an area. 

For all of you that like to make data-driven decisions on where to buy, where do you source your data?

Google seems to be routing their midwest e-mail through a Kansas City data center. 

Now you owe your principles accurate financial data, usually in the form of a P&L and Balance Sheet.

Easiest way is to use a realtor to give you comps. if not, pull data on CLOSED SALES, last 6 months.

I'm not sure we are at a peak yet, but the data clearly shows that more homes are bing flipped now than before as far as number of houses. 

Does anyone have a way to search for recently "removed" rental listings in an area? Or how does everyone find rental comps? I feel like current listings are a good start but would like to search an area for recently r...

Is there maybe a website or a place in which I could utilize to build out this data base?

@Dan Olin MLS has strict data sharing rules...so over eager agents may be violating local board rules by giving you MLS data...it's good to take a quick check.

I do a lot of data analytics currently and am really proficient at interacting with big data so I wanted to bring those skills to find deals, hence the name of the post: Data-Driven Deal Discovery.Getting the Data: So where I looped my skills in was with the Philadelphia Properties database.