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toms3t / Propalyzer

Web app that helps investors evaluate residential investment property opportunities
MIT License
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Incorporate economic information about area #7

Open toms3t opened 7 years ago

toms3t commented 7 years ago

When real estate investing, it's important to know the economy of the market that you are investing in. When evaluating a property, economic factors such as job growth, planned development, and public transportation availability in the local market are good to understand. I'm looking to build this information into the app somehow.

toms3t commented 6 years ago

https://www.census.gov/data/developers/data-sets/economic-indicators.html

ClintonTak commented 6 years ago

Is this still up for grabs? I would like to take it on and see what I can do.

toms3t commented 6 years ago

Hey Clinton, yes it is. I've found a few data sources to get you started if you're interested.

-Tom

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ClintonTak commented 6 years ago

Great! I would love to take a look at those, I glanced over the census data you attached just now and it looks like they have a good API that will come in handy. Just a heads up, this is my first open source project I am contributing to so just let me know if I'm doing anything extra dumb.

toms3t commented 6 years ago

There's also this Census community survey API that could be used to get economic info for a given property address. https://www.census.gov/data/developers/data-sets/acs-1year.html