So my plan is to continue working full time (for now); to fuel my real estate business, start building a client base, (fingers crossed with a few commissions) and then start finding/obtaining rental units for my portfolio. 

Crossing my fingers, as I'd love to meet some fellow BP'ers, even though I'm a newbie!

In a perfect world, the income from this property will pay for itself and another property. fingers crossed..

I see Zestimates as a finger in the wind to see which way the wind is blowing and that's about it.In states where sales prices are public record AND where zillow is able to access them then it seems like an okay tool for getting rough sales comp data, at least for a first pass evaluation.I suspect it's value doesn't just vary state-by-state but also by county and municipality within some states.Try looking  up the local assessor's office for your area and see if they have online records and compare those to zillow.

I think there’s a little more to the story also , I’m going to pass anyhow , going to look at a duplex this weekend so fingers crossed !

As for the hopefully related to the profit, I know that we will have a gain with almost anything we do because of the overall condition of the home and the location but because it is a little over an hour away and the effort that we will be putting into doing this we are 'hoping' that it isn't just a minimal profit so that it makes it worth all the hassle...of course this is an unknown but we have fingers crossed.Thanks again to everyone and I have a feeling I'll be on here again in the future!

cross your fingers for me haha

Keeping my fingers crossed this is all locked up by month's end.

keeping the fingers crossed , thanks for the input  

Crossing fingers