You've already received some great pieces of advice here so I will just highlight a couple based on personal and professional experience. 1. knowledge - put the time in to learn how credit works, debt-paydown methods, lending options, how to run a property deal analysis, tenant screening, different RE investment strategies, etc. 2.

Apologies if this has been highlighted somewhere else in forum already.Thank you 

Do you provide succinct highlight points and inside pics?

To highlight the basics of DD, we like to break those up into 4 areas: financials, initial walkthrough, compliance, and paid inspections/services.We like to begin with the items that require just your time, but not money.

Appreciate you highlighting the tax implications, too.

I have actually been working on an Excel sheet that includes depreciation recapture and the effect on your profit on the property. i attached part of a screen shot, i am still working on it ( off and on) but what i have come to figure is that there is a time when it is best to sell the property, otherwise you do start losing money.( unless you keep it and have it passed to your heirs). the sample i have on there is a house bought for 110K / 90K loan, as you see the yellow highlight is on a cell that reaches a tipping point on when your income, taxes and depreciation recapture tax / closing costs, would start to "cost" money - you would not make as much upon sale of the property. and i broke it down to 27 years, didn't see a need to have that 1/2 yr in the model.I also have it to where if you add to the asset ( addition, etc) it will add to the basis and change the numbers, but like i said there are still things i want to work out more and add.this does not include cost segregation as @Jay Hinrichs,@Jeff Glass,@Eamonn McElroy,@Barry Ruby and @Yonah Weiss have mentioned this is just a straight depreciation on a residential property.

I think Mindy and the team are doing an increasingly good job of highlighting more women in FI and in real estate, but we have a LONG way to go to even this distribution out.

Pick a neighborhood to focus on, print out a map, bring a highlighter with you and drive up and down every street.

Lots of different indicators, but unfortunately, no magic wand to wave over my list to highlight only the people that NEED to sell.

:0)So far $0 as i still new however as highlighted discussions etc on strategies,deals is priceless.