:This is all great news, we need more housing units in our markets and the local level politics seems so hung up by NIMBY'ism that local leaders won't make decisions for fear of retribution.

This is great news for real estate investors, as the TCJA introduced several tax benefits that directly supported the industry.

In fact, some of them have been in the news lately and popped up on the foreclosure list as they are in trouble financially as well. 

Local REIA groups and meetups (check Meetup.com or BiggerPockets) are excellent for connecting with both new and experienced investors.I’d be happy to grab coffee and chat about the market or share insights.

The good news, it's never too late to learn, implement, fail, fail some more, evolve, and grow into the person you were called to be.

I think that, right now, it offers excellent risk adjusted returns. 

I want to become really good at analyzing deals, and determine the markets I should focus on.Are there any resources aside from this forum (books, journals, news publications, podcasts) that you recommend I use to learn more?

You likely only need to do the past 3 years worth for IRS purposes.You may want to see if there is a way to export transactions from QBO to excel and then import transactions from excel to Rentastic.- Unfamiliarity of software with my Bookkeeping and Accounting team.Altough not ideal, you may want to pay and do bookkeeping on both platforms for 3 months to see if you 100% want to make the switch.I still use Quickbooks, but the desktop version, it runs perfectly for all my bookkeeping needs.

I’d like to opportunistically invest @Jillian EzLike Russell said, this was a fabricated story by a local realtor team that caught fire in the news.

Comp 1-2bd with 1-2bds and not 3-5bdsStep 2: columns in Excel - total sq ft, abv grade sf, below grade sf, % abv grade, % below grade, sold priceStep 3: average in Excel - avg ppsf above grade, avg ppsf below grade, avg ppsf totalStep 4: below grade finished 50-60% of above grade ppsf, below grade unfinished 25-30% of above grade ppsfThis will get you close.