Is there any place on this website that that focuses on investors that got in the game late.

Based out of Salt Lake City and looking to do multi-state investments in real estate by flipping or renting. 

My biggest goal for this year is just to get into the game of real estate 

Also looking to build a solid Long Island based team (Agent, contractor, lender).

I'm based in WI and there are several people from NY investing here, some successful and some not---the common thread I see from the ones that are not is that they relied on someone else for information instead of investigating, VERIFYING and doing their own due diligence. 

The modeling of this is actually pretty easy (see link: 42-unit proforma sample), but my model treats the pre-refi loan as I/O, but that can be updated based on your deal.

Your job is to keep tightening it up (geographically and based on asset type) and meeting investors until you have a buy box that makes sense for you.There is also no point to running deals through a calculator if you are seeing them.

@Daniel Baker I would say a lot of it is based on their training or their resources that they utilize to complete your taxes.

Prices a few years ago were based on expectations of (in addition to interest rates staying low): - Then current operating cost assumptions (like insurance cost expectations being flat)- A seeming disregard for record levels of new inventory / supply hitting the market- Extremely high inbound migration expectations which are likely to not be met, due to both natural disasters and the boomerang effect when people from California or the Northeast move to the American South and hate every minute of the humidity, the large and relentless swarm of insects, and the occasional hurricane. 

I would not eliminate OKÇ based on tornadoes, that is why you carry insurance.It will very difficult to find something in Austin that fits your budget.