For professional data, Reis is top in the industry, but since you are just starting out, that is probably above your budget (mine too).

This definitely bothers me, and it seems to me that it's more people who are in the industry who do this versus non-real estate folks. 

Knowing about the REO industry, many contractors will put down all properties as fail, even if it held because if they say it held and there is a leak later on they are held responsible.  

They have a mixed economy, some industry, some tourism.  

However, your network may be decidedly smaller when you consider the number of people you have met in person and catch up with on a regular friendly or business basis.Extending your network through networking, in the conventional sense, often involves referrals, third party introductions and simply walking into a room full of unfamiliar faces to initiate conversation with industry (or non-industry) contemporaries.

Cheap costs of living, good rents, lots of industry, colleges and jobs in bigger cities.

Online advertising through the portal site, Zillow, Trulia, Realtor.com, etc have a -32% ROI across the industry.

As landlords, it's good for our forum members that those decent income struggling single parents are forced by dumb regulations to permanently be tenants, but as people I think we could all agree we need to chill the F out with our regulating the mortgage industry.

This is what I am encountering, in the current Mortgage Industry.

According the IICRC (Institute of Inspection Cleaning and Restoration Certification), which sets the standards for the cleaning industry and water damage restoration training, there are several different levels and classes involved in liquid destruction.