It's called the Professional Investors Guild, and I think it has a nice group of folks who regularly attend.

For expenses, you could start off using the 50% rule (assume expenses will equal 50% of your rental income) for initial analysis, but once you're doing serious due diligence, you can do the following:-Look up the property tax rate on the county assessor's website-Contact insurance companies for estimates on insurance-There are some rules of thumb for estimating regular maintenance and cap ex costs.

You could have a certain amount " allowed" in their lease ( that you add to regular rent ) and if they use more than that, it will be an extra charge to them.

But getting started: experts in place, make looking for one a regular part of your routine.

I regularly deal with two mgmt companies that I own properties with.  

I don't use it however and just have my regular cell number on my business cards.

I have this thought regularly.

My goal is to obtain a single-family rental property sometime in the next 6 months, and if everything goes well, continue to do that (buy more rental properties) at regular intervals.  

Stucco and roofs are typically what most regular people don't have a ton of expertise in.

Guess who gets to review his diet with him?