I got tired of each and every month feeling like im pulling a las vegas gambling machine switch wondering if im going t8 get my rent for the month.

We've had much difficulty finding a multi-family that we ourselves would considering living in until now.I know I'll be missing things for you to more accurately analyze the deal but I'm going to include the most amount of information I currently have and I look forward to you constructively picking it apart;)The property has 2 structures.

If you'd rather gamble tens of thousands of dollars on the same information you could get here or from reading books and taking action yourself just to feel like you've better earned your knowledge or have put in more somehow that's your perogative.

And quite often when the truth is told in accurate accounting is done that can be a profit margin on some flip properties.

Any idea whether a walk through video would be enough for a contractor to come up with a reasonably accurate bid?

I am a mason and I have 2 partners who are carpenters, so we are able to very accurately assume what thinsg will cost and have a definitive time frame.In my opinion, buy and hold is a great starting point (that's what I did), theres tons and tons of resources here and people to answer questions for ANY topic!

One would need to see the whole financial picture to give an accurate assessment!

@Brant RichardsonIf the guy buys doing conventional 20% down payment, the rehab has to be done already, otherwise the bank will not make a loan against the property so in this scenario there is $0 rehab cost but the closing cost is accurate.

save your money the local realtor boards provide the MLS to it's members (brokers/agents) and usually they offer public access to their system, although not as sexy as say a Zillow or Truilia the data is very accurate and updated within minutes not days also when you sign up there is no spam and you have direct access to the listing agent.

I haven't seen all the material from all the gurus of course, but what I have seen and what I have heard through the interviews on the BP podcasts and others is that the information is valid in terms of how to wholesale or network or short sales etc.I am not defending their sales techniques, just saying that the information provided by them was accurate and presented in a comprehensive form that was thought out and had direction on the teaching.