BP has various tools to help you analyze your deals (rentals, flips, wholesale, etc). : https://www.biggerpockets.com/investment-calculators7.

They are extremely disorganized and frustrating to deal with.

Leveraging creative financing methods like hard money loans, private lending, or partnering with investors can also help you secure deals when traditional financing is delayed or limited.

Same for on or off market deals you buy for yourself.

Purchase price: $95,000 Cash invested: $175,000 I worked this deal for 10 months until finally got it.

Ask the manager to explain their process for dealing with maintenance, late rent, evictions, turnover, etc.

I use these as a one and done deal.

Purchase price: $150,000 Cash invested: $150,000 Rental of duplex What made you interested in investing in this type of deal?

Ok here is the thing Darnell, for private lending we weight ~40% on the property "deal" itself, and 60% on the Operator themself; if they know what there doing, can they pull it off, do they have the "chops" for it, are they contingency ready, etc etc.. 

I have a former post and the lady has been super difficult to deal with for the simplest of things.