Steps taken in order to analyze deals!

[Aaron Ramos]

Hey guys,

Preparing to purchase my first cash flowing rental property this year and hopefully many more to come throughout the next 12 months. I am more interested in multi-family homes and have started to analyze deals from Zillow.com, Realtor.com, Craigslist etc... most listings have a general idea of the numbers on a property to where you can punch into the BP Calculator to see how good a deal might be.

My question is how do some of you guys gather info to reinforce your numbers when analyzing a deal? How do you get a better idea what your property tax may be, your home insurance costs and a good idea of what the properties in that area are renting for prior to getting with your realtor or property managers? Or is mostly things you should depend on such a realtor or prop manager to help with?