.- If you'll be an equity partner, make sure you have a good methodology for auditing the investors.

Once you have all that data in place, a plan should start to form that naturally makes sense for you.

I think if they were the, "real" MLS, it'd also be able to show you up to date comps, and be able to do other things to drill down in terms of data.

Around here, the counties have the data.

Why is it from recent experience lenders get upset when you are reluctant to provide your personal data for them to run credit checks without the courtesy of first answering your questions such as do you offer energy efficient mortgages combined with an interest only payment option or conventional mortgage with another option of green features to insure you are not throwing money to the wind long term down the road.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to what data/research (local and/or national) they have used in their presentations that has been most effective in terms of strengthening your position for the benefits of multifamily investing as opposed to residential and/or putting their money into CDs, bonds, stocks.I'm not looking for hard numbers - just what research has been most convincing.Thanks for your time.Kevin

A week ago I was experimenting with exporting all of the sold listings over the past year to determine areas to invest in, so I'm pretty comfortable with data mining and that sort of analysis.

U can also try to google interactive GIS map for the countyCity-data .com also has a database

We have most of those guys, but still haven't completed our daunting data entry task.

I can tell you dealers are not going to give you sales data, not around here.See an attorney.