Private Market Rental Data: The Final Frontier?

For many of us there have long been data just outside of our grasp.  In the Twin Cities, requests for data and analysis on rental markets were a near impossibility until now.  Working with a local non-profit affordable housing intermediary and data partner, we now receive quarterly rental listings by type, size, and cost, for the entire metro.  Where do these data come from?  What attributes are included?  And how are they used?  Come find out as we boldly go where no local researchers have gone before...