With Anthony letting me know almost any property will sell for the right price I'll be sure sure to crunch the numbers just right so I can sell the property for a fair price and still make a profit.

Unfortunately any job associated with those degrees involves me sitting behind a desk crunching numbers.

I love negotiating, marketing, and crunching numbers.

I'm hoping that the legislature here (with plenty of representatives that are NOT from super-lefty urban areas)  will be willing to consider that the downsides of allowing rent control would outweigh any benefits long term,  and there are other approaches to ease homelessness and housing availability crunch that should be considered instead (encouraging more housing construction, incentivising and underwriting riskier tenant pools instead of forcing landlords to take them; reinvestment in mental health and drug treatment programs and transitional housing, working with employers to site new job centers in underdeveloped/struggling areas, etc.)I'm certain that if the state constitution is amended Seattle will implement some kind of rent control.  

-crunch a few numbers on the cost of those updates.

Lots of people are buying houses, all the time, lots of money to be made.I agree that things are in a crunch and some markets (like here in Vegas) aren't viable, but that certainly doesn't mean nobody is getting deals. also, it sounds like you aren't pursuing value-add and just want to buy a house retail and cash flow, this is probably a much harder strategy in an up market especially with where rates are moving.

Well, when you crunch your numbers, and see that property taxes are high, that will kill the deal. 

I was reading Brandon Turner's rental property book and I wanted some more information about paying for property inspectors.Let's say you find a property that fits your criteria, crunch the numbers and find out it's a good deal. 

I also have a decent idea of what I can start with, like finding potential investment properties, going to city hall to find the real owner of the property, seeing if they're willing to sell, open-minded and negotiable, crunching the numbers to see what would be a good deal, etc, etc.While I was networking with local REI groups, I was offered a marketing internship from a local, successful real-estate investing company, where they will show me how they do their bird-dogging, in exchange for finding leads for them. 

I love analyzing deals and crunching the numbers, but I don’t enjoy dealing with the tenants at all.