Lord knows there are a lot of fancy, online GP's now with beautiful websites, YouTube channels, and 10 people in their investor relations department but only 1 inexperienced guy in their acquisitions who couldn't underwrite a lemonade stand.good luck :)

In September, I found a property I was interested in acquiring online.

Offered $20k over asking within a week of it coming online.

The difference is night and day between using someone you find online or in a search vs a personal referral. 

@Jerry Shen ahhh, if you're talking commercial lending, that's a whole other animal. 

If that's the case and you aren't viewing more properties in person than you are making spreadsheets on, you are destined for analysis paralysis.Spreadsheets can only tell you estimations based on numbers given to you online or by a real estate agent whose job is to sell the property.

Quote from @Jimmy Wellman: I've looked online for some information about the average % of the final home price vs. the price you purchase the home for and found that the home should be purchased for 70% of your home's final sale price. 

It all starts with a website and online presence.Let me know if you need step-by-step directions how to do this right.

If you have never done this as a full time business I will throw caution to the wind it is not as easy or as profitable as online forums make it out to be, and if you need money for living this probably is not going to sustain your lifestyle for the first several years. 

@Tiffany Da Silva, I use quickbooks online for bookkeeping and I use a "Profit First" approach to managing cash.