Otherwise, the old school methodology of take 50% of gross rents as your expenses is how investors should look at property, IMO.I do appreciate the shout out.  

Develop a methodology to looking for properties, doing an inspection and making an offer. 

@John CockrumI can also get you a pre-analysis at no cost that will be the IRS' preferred methodology, engineering-based.

You essentially pay for access to someones methodology and maybe for them to hold you accountable to goals.

Whether that’s price, location, interior, or a combo of all I don’t know, but either way it’s only as good as the historical data and methodology. 

My team has a methodology to run screens on sub-tertiary markets -- Micropolitan Statistical Areas.The state with the most MSAs in our Top 20 (with 4)?

Learning a proven methodology is necessary to success.M

I liked his methodology and that he was very conservative, but he seemed leery of using incoming rent as part of my income.

From a methodology perspective, I'm using the relevant fields of 362,386 county property card records in a series of queries to obtain the results.

The reason being that the houses were older than I'm accustomed to and they use different building methodologies up there, so I wasn't able to assess things like the well, foundations on clay soil, rubber roofs, etc.FWIW, I was over budget by about $25K on the first Milwaukee rehab -- about $10K of that was stuff a really good inspector probably could have caught (structural/framing issues), but the inspector missed it and so did I.