Offer your services as a financial analyst on a consulting basis. 

I do estimate the vacancy, capex, property management, and maintenance reserves based upon the actual property I'm looking to buy.

Make sure he doesn't have a written agreement to provide service.

The key in my opnion is a great dependable support staff, namely your cleaning service.

The USGS has monitoring points for those concerned about river and stream levels, and the National Weather Service also provides graphs using data from the USGS.

There may be sites or services that will give you a vacancy number.

@Thomas KeenanSave more money you’ll need it for closing costs and reserves anyways

Also, other properties that I love in booming cities are maxi-storage or light industrial buildings that contractors or service providers can call home for their businesses. 

Once you know exactly what you have to play with, what down payment and reserves you have,  then we can start searching for opportunities you can actually write offers on and most importantly close on.  

I'm having trouble putting faith in a tech company to provide tech services that I can't even get setup.I give a lot of leeway to the program simply from the BP referral to the site... but has anybody used this yet?