There are several hurdles during the process:Find the deal - Unless you are marketing or plugged into a community where there are opportunities, it isn't always easy to find the right dealsEvaluate the deal - Without professional guidance and research tools, it is difficult for a newbie investor to evaluate and ARV/FMV or create an adequate rehab budgetSecondary exit strategies - If things don't go as planned are their other opportunities to exit profitably.

Believe me, I’ve seen my share of ups and downs: from navigating interest rate spikes to figuring out out-of-state managment back when online tools weren’t half as good as they are now.

It's one tool for them in a fight for affordable housing.

What are the best Bigger Pockets tools to use for profitability analysis?  

It’s a reminder that no matter how thorough the inspection, surprises are inevitable.Seller financing is a great focus too—definitely seems like a powerful tool to make deals more manageable, especially on the cash flow side.

Capital raising lead generation tools, email templates, automations, and automated processes.

LLC's are still the way to go but yes you can't tap into owner occupied mortgage tools such as HELOC's or high leverage.

In addition, a trend has started in some cities (i.e Lisbon) to incentivise owners to move their Airbnbs to the long term.If you would like to do a market analysis on the short term rentals, I can send you some links of tools that are helpful (i.e Airdna) where you can check occupancy rates, average rates, etc.- long term: there is a shortage of properties in almost all cities and in some cases and that has contributed to an increase of rents and prices in double digits in some cases. i.e Mafra 10% rent increases last year and Setubal +15% price increase.

Once the above skills and tools are acquired, understanding the sequential process of the development along its timelines and costs needs to be correctly implemented.

It appears to hold much year round potential with the right tactics and tools.