Thankfully, they state they will do the escrow analysis in Dec, just AFTER my current tenants' leases are up, so I can raise the rent!

This is called a cash flow analysis.

Ensuring that you provide all of the applicable information to the cost segregation study company helps them provide the most accurate cost benefit analysis.

What I like about the above data analysis, is you can compare markets and deals verse each other. 

If I could find a duplex that sells at that number and is rent-ready, I'd actually be pretty close to 2%.The problem is that if I inverted my analysis and said, "Hey - this hits the 1% rule!"

Make sure you are baking your insurance costs in your analysis and weighing the risk of environmental catastrophe.

There are tons of options but pick one a lot of the learning is in the doingSteer your own ship: If you have solid fundamentals in terms of deal analysis, your biz plan and what a good deal looks like you'll have less issues as it pertains to staying the course and underwriting "deals" sent to you by agents and wholesalers (most won't make sense, that's part of the game, just move onto the next one) you as the buyer are the key to the transaction get to the point that you know what works for you and walk away from what doesn't despite external pressures Learning about funding is easy, dont sweat it.

My goal this year is to go from analysis paralysis to taking action.

If you have any questions about market analysis or how to get started, don't hesitate to reach out.

If those methods were targeting motivated sellers, it wouldn't take you 5000 mailers calls or texts to get one deal.