Zillow is not ideal because this is a monthly furnished rental - which Zillow doesn't have a specific platform for - but that's what has worked for me up to now. 

Ideally, you layout all the duties (Find, Underwrite, fund, rehab, manage) and assign a value to each of those based on how much time they might take. 

Ideally, looking for turn-key properties

Ideally the owner would handle everything and would have no need for a property management company with only this single duplex in their portfolio. 

Once you've thought a bit about what your ideal wholistic investment portfolio looks like, if you decide that you want some kind of more active real estate investing in the mix, I cannot recommend more getting Start with Strategy by Dave Meyer and the accompanying workbook The Strategy Planner.

(Ideally I'd like to hold the homes a long as possible)Would love some feedback from the BP community

Our real estate goals are to purchase our first investment by end of 2025 (ideally small muti-family like a duplex), and scale to ~40 doors to reach our financial targets.EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE: My parents flipped every house I ever lived in growing up.

Ideally, no more than 5% over median and no lower than 15% under median.

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In playing with the numbers a bit, I'm seeing a trend of atleast 2% rent to price and (ideally) < 7% mortgage rate needed to achieve a decent cash on cash rate.