I do a lot of data analytics currently and am really proficient at interacting with big data so I wanted to bring those skills to find deals, hence the name of the post: Data-Driven Deal Discovery.Getting the Data: So where I looped my skills in was with the Philadelphia Properties database.

I compare data there too.

Obviously, getting the quantitative data is really important, but it is also important to meet the tenants and see what they are like in-person.

I've seen would be investors compiling data and analyzing spreadsheets for a year or more and still never do anything.

Your data seems to support the fact that there is very little available locally within my price range.

So you might want to stretch out your search criteria.Try one of the Listware services of Melissa Data.

Thanks for providing the link to city data, I'm still trying to figure out all the ins and outs so I didn't know about that!

You would have more access to market data and properties and would be able to get a commission on any property you buy which is a perk, but again, depends on how active you plan to be with it to determine ifs value. 

Price PSF works for comparing owner occupied SFR but if you apply that data to a multi family income property, you’re not considering the potential value to the most probable purchaser, who is almost always an investor, not an owner occupant.  

Trulia offers a lot of that info for free, as do sites like city-data.