Once you have a good understanding of that, present him the various options.

Blaine,Get it under contract, dig DEEP into the details, then present your deal to as many investors as possible.

The opportunity that is meant for you will present itself eventually.Good luck!!

Similar to what @John Warren said I try to just take good opportunities as they present themselves.

If you and the seller are able to come up with options to present to the tenant to have the appraiser go through that unit it would be the easiest route.

He presents monthly at the Pittsburgh area American Congress of Real Estate meeting.

Hopefully you will not choose lots of and/or expensive Christmas presents (wants/luxuries) over your housing (need), with your next landlord.Plus, ya know what? 

My concern prior to renting out the house would be that I would need to replace all of the electrical as one repair issue with a tenant could cause a major problem and I could see myself renovating the kitchen and bathrooms to get full ARV, but that could wait a few years as they are in decent shape.Does anyone have any good ideas I could present to my family members that would entice them to do such a deal?

Printed out the PDFs from the calculators on here and presented them to him.

They have their listing presentation down pack, and it is really good.6.