I analyze them, and let the numbers narrow it down to one or two.

This will help you narrow down the housing features are the most impactful in your area, give you a deep sense of your target neighborhoods, and start networking.

I'd broaden your criteria a bit and then once you find a good agent and they get a feel for what you're after then you can narrow in the search a bit! 

If you want the list they are giving you narrowed, give them a narrowing criteria.Im not only speaking as an agent, but also as an investor who uses other agents for my out of state purchases.

Perhaps narrow it down slightly?

My excel spreadsheet has about 700,000 rows worth of data and I'm trying to narrow it down to the top 5,000 most motivated leads.

Commercial Mortgage Banker (independent of a bank) - Same as #2, except they often have a few exclusive lender relationships that they prefer, so more exclusive but maybe more narrow.

Chase Bowden Free steps you can take to move in the right direction:-Since you will be living there, I would first narrow it down to places you would want to live.

So that is a big problem.Then the article also speaks to retail as a major employer, so as retail falls, it impacts local employment which I know is often the tenant base in B and C areas of RE.

I screened multiple companies and narrowed my results down to two, Shift Property Management and Simple Home Property Management.