This helps with putting together a due diligence sequence, familiarity with free online resources, and shows you what pay services you may need to fill in the blanks  such as TLO and PACER.  

If the tenant moves out, they don't just have a blank check to use where-ever they go.

I paid a few hundred bucks for the Michael blank training last year and closed my first apartment building with some of the knowledge I learned.

Staring at all these spreadsheets is overwhelming haha.

In the old NVAR (Northern VA Association of Realtors) there was a blank for us to fill for late payment penalty.

Paul Moore & Michael Blank also have great contentGino

One method I like (at least in theory) that Michael Blank pitches is to create a sample deal package that is representative of a deal you would be doing.

If so and he just got a house closed but hasn't stared work yet, why not ask him to go there and take a shot at estimating repair costs?

Are you referring to Michael Blank's podcast?

As it turns out, we drove by the house earlier today and it was right out of a nightmare - cars in various stages of dismantlement all over the place, young people all over the place staring us down as we drove by, and just a general feeling of wanting to get out of there.