Thinking about the tenant is critical.

The HOA is critical to any shared ownership situation.

All appliances and garage door opener functioning properly.After you've done each room, step to just inside the front door and take a hard critical look.

Hence focusing on properly evaluating deals is critical.

I still have the need to login in for PMs but most PMs are not time critical so I can delay responding to them.RSS and widgets are a step forward but a small step for my usage.

On top of that, this town is just starting to reach critical mass, in my opinion.

:welcome: to BP.To address your questions a bit.Having direct MLS access is helpful but not all that critical.

That should give you something like $30-45K in profit.That ARV is critical.

Like I said I'm very new and all the constructive criticism is more than welcome.As for the Cali market, I think its fair to assume the price drop over the next year will not be so drastic.

the forum at realestatewebmasters dot com would be useful too, as would the forum at digitalpoint dot com (once you qualify you can promote it in the Freebies section).Yours is the kind of tool that will take time to get going but will hopefully promote itself once you reach a "critical mass".Oh, and a DMOZ listing wouldn't hurt either (submit and forget).