You can negotiate the price and terms a lot since the seller is on a time crunch and contingent on this deal getting done. 

Hey Kyle, I agree with Michael that you'd need to crunch the numbers on specific properties but at first glance, I would lean towards buying where you want to live and renting to your current roommates. 

After you’ve crunched all the numbers and  YOU think it’s a good deal, go for it.

I’m contacting an agent soon to get a list from the MLS to get properties to crunch numbers on more efficiently and start building a market picture for myself.

As for the best sellers it is difficult to tell because you will likely have a small sample size, my guess is that it will be people who want to move to a new city or state and are on a time crunch to do so.

I'm not finding any steals out there, but if you crunch the numbers, like you said, a deal will happen.

Day 2: Here is the deal I looked at on January 1st  and would like help crunching the numbers.

I've been doing some research and number crunching on the economic strength of the various MSAs as I look for favorable rental markets.

Hoping to find out from the community if my numbers are off, how can I improve where I get the numbers to refine my number crunching process in the future. 

Then they want to refinance and either new debt ratio doesnt work, new ltv is off or macro conditions necessitate crunching credit lines.