but a lot goes into analyzing a deal, including: $/SF, Average Days on Market in the area, how easy or difficult it is to get permits in the area, how long the flip would take, comps/ARV, Rehab, Rental Rates, how the area is trending, holding/carrying/hard money costs, closing/commission costs etc.If you can analyze the deal, you can then negotiate the deal with sellers, buyers, and lenders.

Purchase a property which the seller owns free and clear and convince the seller to carry back a loan2.

Cash and carry.

I do direct mail to Mom and Pops and the people who respond are usually over 65 and looking to retire...and interested in carrying seller financing. 

Everyone else has left the business because they are sick of the city riding them constantly for everything and the insane bonding they are required to carry.

If you don't know these terms, look them up, it's the best way to learn.Know too that financial ratios do not always apply to real estate because real estate is not a liquid market like stocks, you also have unexpected and unknown carrying costs that don't apply to say stocks or bonds.

The need is for a GC to oversee and carry out the completion of a rehab project.

Commercial loans carry more risk b/c of the balloon payments.

Exactly how I would like to carry out these deals.

SFHs are generally risky in the area of cash flow with having only one tenant to carry the load.