Going off on a tangent because one "developer" threw a turd in the punch bowl is... possibly not a great way to glean info on the internet.  

You will be able to glean information from those you are building with just as you can build from a paid mentor.

It would be nice to meet up so I can glean from those who have gone before me, such as yourselves especially in this local market of Connecticut.  

I turned to my local data sets (county downloads) to see what, if anything, I can glean from the local market.

I have zero experience investing and am trying to glean information to better equip myself from those with far more experience and know how.

If you are going to local rei meetings and reaching out to investors you will start gleaning this knowledge2) you have to see the property to assess it's condition and come up with a rehab value - there will be some work involved in the turnover even if it's to an end buy-and-hold investor3) If it's going to definitely be a buy and hold you need to have very good knowledge of the rental rates for that property - then you can apply the 1 - 2% "rule" i mentioned aboveHopefully my reading here on BP has me in the ballpark of decent advice and hopefully someone will correct me if I'm completely wrong!

But, once it died back a bit, I gleaned some helpful info.  

So, this is based on what I could glean from a quick read.Applying debt acceleration to arbitrage is probably not going to produce useful results.

Hoping to Glean as much info as I can from Bigger Pockets.RJ

There seems to be a lot of beneficial information that could be gleaned from this thread.