After about four months of working with my realtor and wholesalers and scouring realtor.com and Zillow.com, I found my property.

I've been scouring for deals all over the place and every time that I run it through some numbers it just doesn't seem to make sense.

Knowing that I've been scouring the internet for real estate strategies and advice on what agents actually do.

In today’s world of Zillow, Trulia, Redfin, etc, I could essentially list my own property for free, and with every one else scouring the internet looking for houses themselves, sell it easily myself.

Here are a few reasons:Unless you already know the area you're buying in, you have to learn the neighborhood You have to scour the MLS, or whichever method you're using, to find properties that fit your requirementsYou have to do comps for purchase price and for rental price for each property you're consideringYou have to estimate initial costs to acquire the property (as you're already trying to do) as well as monthly expenses -- we built a model over time to do this and BP also has a calculator you can use to help with your first dealWhen all is done and you go through inspections, appraisal, and closing, the work of being a rental property investor is just beginning.

Scour the internet for reviews (much overhead goes into hiding them these days.)

My partners and I are scouring our contacts and networking to piece together verbal capital investments for POF in order to submit LOI’s.  

After using the lovely BP calculators, and scouring multiple sites for comp rents, zillow, mls, rentometer I've concluded the avg. rent for a 3 bdr 1 bath to be between $1400-$1550 depending on the neighboorhood which is decent.

Make sure you scour the multifamily threads for information and whenever you have a specific question about MF, don't hesitate to create a new thread (assuming one hasn't already been created) and DM the active MF forum posters.

First time poster (and buyer), scoured the forums but couldn't quite find someone with my situation I could refer to.