Favorite Research Sites

This is a great place to investigate housing demographics, economic/market projections, housing affordability, vacancy rates, home ownership statistics. Much drier reading but if you're the type who loves text book kind of information this is it.

Go to this site to see any property that you may be interested in with a birds eye view. This tool is a great alternative to actually flying out and driving the area. You can see all the shopping, commercial/industrial sites, attractions as well as dump sites, car wrecking yards near your subject property. Land features such as hills, mountains, lakes, rivers, creeks that can affect the value of the property will be most evident to you with this amazing tool.

An excellent website for the latest in news, visit it periodically and check for the latest real estate trend news that affects the country or area you may be buying into.

Another excellent site for information about the housing market or trends. Check out the "Lists" section and go to "Real Estate". There you might see the best places for businesses, hospitality, the highest rental markets, most expensive states to insure your home, and other articles that discuss both domestic and international business that can affect our real estate market here. This is a great site, put it on your favorites.

Yet another good site to check on real estate trends.

A site that can help you advertise your property on the internet, costs some money but if your local management company isn't getting the needed inquiries to get your home rented this is a great tool to get that extra exposure.

Another great tool to keep track of your properties, enter all your expenses, accounts payable, rent payments, etc. Also records all your purchase information and closing costs and prints all your data for your accountant for easy tax times.