Trustworthy, experienced, and like-minded are all qualities I like to look for.Start by quantifying your goals and assets: What do you want your investments to produce, and by when?

@Jonathan MuellerYou need to qualify/quantify your question.

Model / quantify your life into cash flow needs3.

To be concise, you should probably enlist a few pros in your area to help quantify your vision so you can more accurately evaluate the real estate side of this purchase.

Additionally, ListHub's MLS partners have the ability to redirect traffic to their own public websites and include the MLS public site traffic statistics in the ListHub reports to better quantify the value the MLS provides to members."

(seldomly find any discounts forget about any deals)People living in Austin can't explain housing market to someone living in Mid-west or East coast because it's hard to explain/quantify  the city growth.

I am comfortable with my capacity to assess property value, but I guess it's some frugal trigger that struggles to quantify what I think is risky most of the time in upgrading some of the property.

There are lots of charts and statistics that show how much more efficient Low E and argon filled windows are, but like Dev says it would be difficult to quantify actual savings over the long term.Check your local building codes though.

This is not quantified anywhere, nor is it fully factored into the case shill index.

Still giving you quantifiable cash flow!