It's very easy to crunch numbers and come up with grand plans based on perfect conditions, but I'm just curious as to how many investors out there are actually succeeding and meeting the goals they have set?

Wonder how much I'll have to bribe them with..Now that you mention it, I will at least send something to my loan broker, because he does bust @ss to get deals closed when we get to crunch time..

I am in the process of completing my California Real Estate License and currently Temp at a REIT (I received my work permit and got a job immediately).I have spent hours crunched over real estate books, newspapers, scurrying the web, text books, podcasts, driving around neighbourhoods, going to open houses etc. and have decided that Real Estate Investing is something I would like to eventually pursue full time.If you've read this far , thank you!

I've crunched the numbers and if I could purchase three four-plexes in the next ten years, that would give me the financial independence I'm looking for."2.

At this point just practicing tracking down leads and crunching numbers I still have a lot to learn and some money to save up.

I personally don't bother above 70, unless I know for a FACT that at best, cosmetics need to be done inside...even then it's 80 tops and I'm still hard-crunching numbers to be sure I can possibly make something decent on it after all costs.

It will take time to get there as we have to crunch old data (which is time consuming) with data moving forward to come up with a good snap shot.  

Or look on the MLS daily and crunch some numbers till I find a good deal that will cash flow.

Spend a few hours a week analyzing deals to get comfortable crunching numbers and understand the value of cash flow.

I really like crunching the numbers, finding/putting deals together, and working with our project manager on projects (ie. evaluating potential flips, doing renovations, ect).