Analyze cash flow, potential vacancy rates, and maintenance costs before making a decision.Secure FinancingTake advantage of owner-occupied loans such as FHA, VA, or conventional loans, which often have lower down payment requirements.

*****I can’t underscore how important networking is, I was able to link up with an experienced first partner who helped (and still helps) guide me through REI.Step 4 (analyze deals and market): Analyzing multiple deals everyday as well as market rents for the areas I was targeting.

Also as others have stated this is probably the metric that matters least in your analyzation.

Analyze as many deals as you can.

I am looking forward to exploring these sites and getting my reps in analyzing them.

Be sure to check out the free tools BP provides to help analyze deals you may have and also market insights.

Be sure to check out the free tools BP provides to help analyze deals you may have and also market insights.

There is no way to analyze it and based on the analysis decide what is a good price or bad price. 

Once you're able to analyze the existing condition of these 6 systems, you can then source piece rate pricing from sub contractors or a GC -- this may be done by quantity, day rate, etc.

Follow and analyze their offerings for a year and then assess whether to move forward.