Process for choosing the best investment properties

[Jack Galloway]

I'm a newbie, ready to begin purchasing homes for investment income with cash. In my area, there are homes everywhere that are priced well below what they sold for a decade ago. And the rental market is strong. So my problem is that there so many nice homes priced low that it's tough to seperate the good deals from the best deals. Do you have advice on a resource or template or system that will let me quickly run potential deals through it in order to sort of "score" them in order to compare them to each other? Thanks, Jack in middle TN