My name is Brady Boyer. I recently graduated college from Penn State with a degree in Accounting and Finance. I have been learning about real estate for a couple of years now through various classes offered at Penn State as well as through reading books and blogs. My ultimate goal is to achieve financial freedom (which I define as not having to work if I decide I don't want to), and I believe real estate is the best option to accomplish that. I currently have not completed any deals, and I have to work on paying off my $85k in student debt before I can consider investing. In the meantime, I want to learn about analyzing deals so that when I do have spare money to invest I am ready to invest and know how to analyze and find deals. Given my background I am familiar with how to calculate NOI and the additional ratios. What I am struggling with is how to find the information so that I can analyze it. For example on Zillow you might get revenue information but not estimates of cost or vacancy. Do you have to talk to the seller / real estate agent to get this information? What sites / sources do you guys use? I would appreciate any advice.
Nice to meet you!
Brady
