By comparison, when I started I studied hard for one solid week and then bought my first rental.

Things like paying closing costs, funding a interest rate buydown, etc. greatly enhance your offer in comparison to similar properties on the market.

If you haven't seen it HGTV magazine has done some of the work for you in the "Highs/Low" comparison article every month.

Brad Dornish, and now we would like to gather more lawyers for price comparison.

It was supposed to be a comparison to the Black Tulipomania of the 1600s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania.

There are a ton of complexes in the area - you shouldn't have a problem talking to them and finding out their rents and amenities, to at least give you a better comparison point.

If you're looking for the best returns and don't mind doing work yourself, turn-key probably isn't your best bet.Basically, it's an apples to oranges comparison...

My day job is Avionics Software Engineer, so I am trying to learn how one evaluates such commercial properties and how one obtains factual information to based investment decision on such class of properties.The broker who proposed this purchase provided nice graphs with comparable curves of average vs. the property metrics, such as prices per sq.ft, vacancy, price per unit etc.However, the report is missing correlation to a specific properties the comparison is based on.Am I being unreasonable by asking comp information that is customary for SFR and low count multi?

If you watch this show (silly, I know and no doubt as realistic as the house flipping shows) the opening sequence has a shot looking down a waterfall from above.

Pay it based on the outage time prorated for those days the heat was out or a temperature comparison to last year.