You're clearly told that when you sign up for the course, but you don't really know what that means until you're enrolled and start to get active with trying to find and evaluate deals.

On the other hand, rental income properties can provide steady, long-term income streams with room for appreciation.In your shoes, I'd start by evaluating my goals as an investor.

To discover suitable investment opportunities, it is crucial to conduct thorough research, analyze local market trends, assess rental demand, consider job growth, evaluate neighborhood dynamics, and anticipate potential appreciation.

It obviously depends on where you're looking to invest, but there are tons of great tools out there to help you evaluate a market (AirDNA, Rabbu, etc..).

RV parks are evaluated more like a regular business than most other real estate sectors.

We're thus able to evaluate our rates, and keep pace with inflation, on a monthly and quarterly basis.

Looking for mentors and opportunities to learn how to evaluate real estate deals.

., pressure test rent assumptions, look at market absorption and new construction, evaluate capital stack etc.).

Once you know your numbers, then you can evaluate different strategies, etc. 

I have two consecutive years of appraisals from state licensed professionals that show 100k increase in property values after the 40k in contractor receipts during that year which cross out only half the list given from the state licensed inspector 2) accept the 590k evaluation.