I am fairly new to Real Estate but no stranger to cashflow, crunching numbers (spreadsheet whore), and observing markets - Derivatives background.Honestly speaking, it took me a while to find a forum as good as this one so kudos to all involved.My interest in real estate is cash flow (buy and hold) and architectural style, which brings me to almost any brick building (federal style, art deco, chicago etc...) and heavy use of wood trim.

Every time I'd crunch numbers in either of those places on the cheap, low rent places, the taxes would put me in the negative.So lately I've been looking in KC (other areas of Missouri as well), Albuquerque, and Little Rock.We decided just the other day that it might be best to actually take a road trip through some of the places we're interested in so we can have some pictures of certain neighborhoods to go with the searches.

This strategy may be a bit more difficult given our current lending crunch, but it still can be done.

. / median household income / median house price for this community, not the entire city.It is much more difficult to "flip" the house in today's market due to the lending crunch so buyers are fewer and further between.If you can get enough rent to positively cash flow the home, rent it for at least a year.

My question is, have any of you bought a property listed on MLS that after crunching the numbers, produced $100 of cash flow per door?

That is why my point is to not use rules, but evealute each investment and crunch the numbers accordingly.

Crunching numbers in RE is simple math.

But they have the time to do a lot of tracking, data mining and crunching to know what to bid and when and how frequently to run the ads.

Crunch...As in Mortgage Crunch or Housing Crunch.

Here in the good ole' USA this credit crunch has created a lot of opportunity to make a lot of money.....as they say, "the time to make money, is when the blood is running in the streets" (or something along those lines).