Therefore, you need to become educated in estimating repair costs while walking properties to decipher if it's worth your contractor's time/energy. 

What's best when is a hard thing to decipher, so is RE the best asset class? 

Becaue direct ownership we could have control with fixed rate debt that's guaranteed by gov, our asset would usually flat or going up/stable, since it's controllable it's more like 'passive'. single family residential is not valued by the movement of cap rate, but it's valued by the real market supply-demand metrics.in all my direct asset everything is going up with scale of 20-40% IRR, so all these naives LP investors are just being fooled so much by the most teaching in real estate and they're not unable to decipher whether what they learnt is accurate or not. 

for question like this i recommend the OP to subscribe to resiclub analytics, lot of good info there where they can decipher, whether it would be ohio or milwaukee as final city later on it's totally his discretion.

Analyzing real estate deals is like deciphering a puzzle of numbers and projections.

We find that a lot of new investors are definitely capable of obtaining both of those documents, but oftentimes they need help in deciphering what they actually mean and what needs to actually be done about it.

That usually can decipher a real lender.

As a property manager, one thing that I have found that helps decipher a good PM from a Bad PM is their processes.

CPAs love clean books, and hate bookkeeping, so anyone you hire should be thinking in alignment with what your tax preparer will need at the end of the year (otherwise your tax preparer will charge you a premium for the extra work they have to do to decipher your financial statements).

It's incredibly hard to tell what will happen.I do think we see a slight uptick in listings, but it's hard to decipher how much of that is from this ruling.