I have my own excel spreadsheet I've been using; it's all just a number crunching system. 

Pay a contractor to look over your plans and help you crunch the numbers.

I am a home-owner and have been for 2 years now.Anyways, I am attempting to crunch some numbers for the first time in order to practice my basic analysis of a property and to see if it is/what makes it a "good deal".The address I am working with is relatively local (in state): 3043 6th St, Morgantown, WV 26508This is near West Virginia University and has bus routes nearby for transportation to campus!

The bottom line is that despite all the number crunching and analysis that tells us a deal is a good one, there is always the unknown or uncontrollable to a degree.

given the time crunch due to the 60 day delays, the balloon is approaching and I can't afford to mess around... so I am paying for the 2nd appraisal just so I can get it put to bed and move on to the next thing...... but I still find it an offensive practice unless there is a valid reason for the first appraisal to be suspect.

My favorite book for numbers crunching and modeling is David Geltner's, "Commercial Real Estate Analysis and Investments."

Generally, the more number crunching you have to do on a property the less of a deal it is.

Guarav: as usual our members have crunched the numbers and analyzed the financials quite well.

I've crunched the numbers over and over again and the cash flow should be decent.

It is hard to get much income from properties and having a cash crunch can be a disaster if credit runs dry and unanticipated problems come up.You are younger so 30 yrs can go by pretty quickly.