They’re often familiar with market-specific expenses and can help validate your estimates.Lastly, as you analyze more deals, keep track of actual expenses on your properties or properties you’ve researched.

@Natalie Kolodij is on the right track with her questions.

Does Baseline give you the option to track expenses without attaching it to a particular property?

Are you looking for builder track homes?

If you can brand yourself as someone with a strong track record of getting VA buyers to the closing table efficiently, realtors will take notice and vouch for you and your clients as offers are submitted and this will show tremendous value to borrower clients.  

I am on fire to get going, and to stay on track with my plan I will have to buy minimum 1 property this year.  

You are on an interesting track, we just aren't to a reliable & useful level with it. 

Lenders look at creditworthiness/balance sheet/track record and the collateral in determining the leverage they will offer.

Use Real Estate By the Numbers as your guide, make sure it tracks the loan pay down and depreciation and have all of those numbers pour into a Schedule E.

People in my area live right next to train tracks and there are loud trains shaking the place at all hours.