What features of the MLS do you use most in analyzing your deals?

[Mike Goldenthal]

Anybody got any good tips or tricks they use to maximize what they get out of the MLS data?

[Anthony Angotti]

I track neighborhoods for appreciation and days on market once every month for the past year. Helps look at trends. 

I also built a spreadsheet that analyses deals for me on a really basic level. So I just data dump listings. You just have to make the columns right in excel and in your exported csv file. Then you can pretty much analyze deals quickly if you use VLOOKUPS for basic rent from certain neighborhoods. 

If SQFT if in your MLS (It's not in our MLS consistently), you can analyze flips pretty simply too if you know median price per sq ft. Same way.