Use public records, broker sales data, and recent transactions to spot repeat institutional players and understand what assets they prefer.

Have you stress-tested what happens if rent drops to $1100 on one side?

Nearly $100 billion in AI data center projects were delayed last year, largely because communities said, “We don’t want that near us.”

At Standard Management Company, we’ve tested quite a few tools over the years and ultimately settled on AppFolio for day-to-day property management and QuickBooks Online (QBO) for accounting.AppFolio handles the operational side — tenant portals, rent collection, maintenance tracking, document storage, and unit-level financials.

There's often additional interesting info on a bank statement - if you know how to intrepret the data.- Also, average their income over at least 3-4 months, do NOT assume they always work 40 hours/week, 52 weeks/year! 

.• VAs handle communication, recerts, inspections, listings• Contractors handle standardized scopes• Accounting manages books, reconciliations, and loan schedules• We make decisions based on clean data, not emotionsSystems remove chaos, people execute them, and properties stay stable.7.

Unless you are creating your own LLM with specific data relying on the public data provides poor results.

Yeah scraping Auction is smart but the real edge is what you do with the data after it lands in your lap.If you already have Apify pulling all new foreclosures each morning, I’d tighten it up by baking your buy box into the scraper so it only keeps stuff that roughly pencils in, like estimated ARV times 0.7 minus a ballpark rehab and fees still leaves you with your target equity.

Always stress-test the deal.We run numbers three ways:• Worst case: inspection delays, tenant slow approvals• Base case: regular turn, normal rent• Best case: new voucher, max allowable rentIf it doesn’t cash flow in the base case, we’re not interested.5.

The extra advantage is that some markets have reliable off-market opportunities, which means less competition and more control over your first investment.It’s a great way to start building a foundation, test the process, and scale without the stress of high purchase prices or relying solely on local boots-on-the-ground.