yes you can get a lot of info on sites like these and other blogs, but what you're looking for is someone to sit down with you and take you through a deal, even just as an observer (i assume you'd like that).well that's not easy to find unless you're out there attending as many free seminars and investor clubs as you can.

I think you are spot on with this observation.

Then I collect them as a batch and rank them according to our rental criteria.There may be less ability to observe people and see what they are doing.

Tennant A is a member of a protected class and Tennant B is a white guy in his 30s; their stats are as follows:Tennant A; 700 credit score, monthly income of $4,000, no felonies or any other marks on the record, and two positive landlord references.Tennant B; 650 credit score, monthly income of $3,500, no felonies or any other marks on the record, and two positive landlord references.Subjective observations of each of the tennants are:Tennant A; showed up 20 minutes late to our scheduled showing of the property, the vehicle is a pit and obviously not cared for properly, dressed in pajamas, and a review of his social media revealed multiple crude and explicit posts.Tennant B; Showed up 10 minutes before he was scheduled to view the house, clean car, dressed professionally, and had minimal social media posts all of which were clean and polite. 

@Barry Pekin so observe the game from the sideline. 🤔.

I've been to the last two sherriff sales in our county but I just observed.

She claims to know this by observing sold prices she is familiar with and seeing them with inaccurate sold prices on Zillow.

I have experience in construction and may be able to offer my observations.

Now the deal looks much different from what a one-year analysis would suggest.When addressing the criticism that a pro forma is like trying to predict the future, I usually respond by observing that using the most recent year is really no different: You are predicting that all future years will be basically like the past year.Best -- Frank

My first observation is that I think you're probably over thinking the buy and hold business a bit.