New Investor Analysis Questions

[Angelyn Avignon]

Hi everyone!

I am looking at purchasing my first investment property around Q3 of next year. I am leaning toward a house hack in a duplex and trying to figure out to do this. The goal for this investment would more cash flow focused with ideally a bit of appreciation as the secondary goal. I've looked around a little bit about where I'd like to move. Honestly I am not sure how to filter the data or which data I should be looking at when analyzing a deal. Can anyone help me figure out the right metrics I should be analyzing? Any tools I should look into for these metrics? Also what other questions should I be asking along these lines?

Thanks!!