Net Operating Income ( the key "ingredient" to determining cap rate) is the gross income minus the operating expense.

I have done all of the ask a real estate agent find a mentor all of that but am still lacking the key ingredient for investing.

Have you asked them to show you the rope, or shall I say the secret ingredients to be successful in investing in real estate?

Small guys that are more efficient and do not have a lot of overhead will be more profitable that somebody that is doing 150 flips per year.I think his goal is missing the most important ingredient: ''what would be an average profit per deal after overhead is paid?''

The process will be much the same for 85-90% of us, though a key ingredient is your marketing budget.

You do seem to have the ingredients needed to be a good real estate agent.

Here are the key ingredients I use to invest in my local market when I'm overseas:- Good real estate agent who works with video.

If you know how many cookies need to be baked you need to keep track of how much ingredients to order per week or month.

I'm willing to put much effort on my side, as well as rehabbing with my own hands, not for the money aspect, but to start getting knowledge of every ingredient that adds into real estate investing.I'm a bit lost and overwhelmed and quite frankly unsure if that's the right way to go about it in my situation.

Ingredients aren’t the only thing that makes the bread, sometimes it’s the way you massage the dough.