What are your top resources?
Which resources have you found to be indispensable in your field? Such as Zillow, Loopnet, and other sites? I also like to utilize blogs such as Curbed and some Facebook local area groups to keep me up to date. 

However, my go to number one in-person resource is just taking a few days out of the month to aimlessly drive around the city, into unknown neighborhoods. It just gives me a real accurate slice of what this immediate area is about.
[{"id": "ckg8q18", "text": "Costar by far", "replies": [{"id": "ckh9wj6", "text": "Just be careful not to use the rent roll or unit mix they post as gospel. Their researchers aren't the best paid in the world and it shows up in the quality of work they do", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "ckg9qnx", "text": "I've been developing a site that plots the bigger news and deals on a map. Since it relies on Google, street view is a convenient way to \"tour\" the area of the deals.\n\nJust a Phoenix test right now: http://crereport.co/cre/phoenix-az.html", "replies": [{"id": "ckgdjja", "text": "This is REALLY cool. Seems like a great way to learn local market news. I'd love to hear what your business plan is for this. (subscription based vs. open upload and advertising driven)", "replies": [{"id": "ckgeuqu", "text": "Thanks! Putting heart &amp; soul into it. \n\nI've build the core to adapt to a few ways to use it. I'm going to run it as my blog in Phoenix. The whole process keeps me deeply invested continued development.\n\nWhat I really want to do is offer the solution in other markets as a way for a company or (better yet IMO) a cooperative effort of companies to \"host\" the report in their market. It would be re-branded with their identity, domain name, emailed report, filtered content, etc. As the content is hyper-local in nature, it makes my work a lot easier knowing people IN that market are actively guiding the content that best suits the market.\n", "replies": [{"id": "ckziyls", "text": "Really loved your site and subscribed to the report, certainly plug it as a resource to people I know in the industry", "replies": [{"id": "cl15wts", "text": "Many thanks! Hope you find the report useful.\n\nFinally added a search feature. Now you'll be able to isolate [Multifamily content](http://crereport.co/cre/search.html?q=Multifamily&amp;Search=&amp;w1=before&amp;d1=&amp;w2=before&amp;d2=&amp;t%5B%5D=&amp;390556ddad21019641b179f206ca05e8=). ", "replies": [], "depth": 5}], "depth": 4}], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "ckgdeqd", "text": "Competent local brokers are worth their weight in gold. Also, Reis reports are great as a snapshot if you're researching markets nationwide. ", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "ckgdiew", "text": "This is REALLY cool. Seems like a great way to learn local market news. I'd love to hear what your business plan is for this. (subscription based vs. open upload and advertising driven)", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "ckgdkvl", "text": "Definitely Reis reports. Also, competent local brokers are worth their weightin gold. ", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "ckgs2m0", "text": "Costar and honest buildings", "replies": [{"id": "ckltox3", "text": "[Honest Buildings](http://urbanland.uli.org/sustainability/honest-buildings-a-social-network-for-buildings/)", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "cl40l6u", "text": "These are all good answers. For something like loopnet, zillow, try [TheSquareFoot] (http://www.thesquarefoot.com)", "replies": [{"id": "cl4yg25", "text": "One thing for certain, whenever I do my research, listings on TheSquareFoot's website comes up on page 1 in my Google searches. And it doesn't happen because Google's learned my preferences. They do a great job on organic SEO. +1", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}]