Spend a year learning and going to meetups before you fork over a $50-$100k franchise fee and half of your profits and don't even know what you are doing.

BiggerPockets has some pro tools that let you see rent to price ratios and other cool stats, I use this to check out various markets and which seem to have better/worse profitability.

Some of these strategies (though not all, and possibly not the most profitable) are the subject of constant discussion on BP. 

They need to add 25% in order to get the 20% for  Overhead and Profit.

Searching property records for o deeds doesn’t tell us if the underlying transaction was profitable, or what the ROI is.3.

For example if you think the house is worth 200K fixed up you need to pay 100K to afford the hard money loan and rehab budget and still have a profit.

I bought a 16 unit apartment complex that was a expense nightmare, with low rents, that I eventually gave up trying to make profitable. 

Account Closed our world is trending to more & more "immediate gratification".Self-showings are the result of this and owners squeezing PMC's profits to nothing.Regarding the PMA, ours is pretty long to cover everything we can realistically think of - yet, many owners freak out about it and hire a PMC with a shorter contract.How would you be reacting right now if someone had broke into your property and stole these things?

And what I mean is the business is not profitable until you add at lease 100 doors.  

.- It's not profitable for them to search for under-market priced houses, figure out repairs needed or what other problem is pushing the price down and do even more for a newbie investor that has analysis-paralysis and may never buy anything.Some questions you'll want to share the answers to with any agent you choose:1) Are you paying cash or getting a mortgage?