We found this home through a combination of online tools and personal exploration in the area.

Hopefully your agent can help you out - this is where they earn their money.

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If that's the case and you aren't viewing more properties in person than you are making spreadsheets on, you are destined for analysis paralysis.Spreadsheets can only tell you estimations based on numbers given to you online or by a real estate agent whose job is to sell the property.

Many successful active investors transition to passive investing as a way to diversify into new asset classes or markets and to earn back some of their time and still benefit from the positives of real estate investing.To answer your question - I would allocate a portion of the $200,000 to MF as I believe this is a good time to invest in an asset class that has recently struggled. 

The market appreciates 3% per year.If you pay cash for one house and rent it for $1,500, after five years, you'll have earned $90,000 in rent income and gained $34,000 in appreciation. 

The other half of the accounting records is coming from online purchases, utility payments, etc etc where they are sending you an email. 

The difference is night and day between using someone you find online or in a search vs a personal referral. 

I could sell the property and net $170k and then reinvest that and earn 9% interest annually via lending hard money. 

Whether I find a new tenant or not, the departing tenant moves out after 30 days and is treated like an ordinary termination, which means I process their deposit like normal and they can earn a good landlord reference.2.