BiggerPockets also has a calculator to analyze deals, and I highly recommend you start this as soon as possible, even if you are not ready to buy.

You are a high w2 earner, The house is worth 110k today, you are buying from your grandma for 60k in exchange for free rent for life, upside ARV of 200k.The costs of owning the house will help provide tax relief on your high w2 earnings, you are buying a great chunk of equity that will pay off in the future, and you and your grandma are doing each other solids. 

Our logical process:1) Use Neighborhood rankings to narrow down area of city you want to invest in2) Focus on getting to know that Neighborhood(s), so you know the good & bad streets, block-by-block.3) Be patient to acquire properties on good streets that meet your buying criteria.Our rankings are done with a "bell curve" approach.

Investment Info:Single-family residence buy & hold investment.

Instead I will tell you that it can be done and you just need to have a quick call to go over the basics and be able to answer several questions.If you wanted to buy an investment property that would be even easier and there are a few programs you could use for this as well.

Investment Info:Single-family residence buy & hold investment in Lucien.

Looking to do my first house hack, along with getting into more buy and holds.

Lets say you buy a property for $200k and put $50k into it and then net $300k which is 20% profit.

Here is what one of the new people I coach from Socal did with a property in Phoenix
I helped him find. He has taken his training seriously. It’s a Subto (Subject To) that I helped him buy “off market” and he chose t...

I always suggest buying fewer but better properties.