You are inspiring me to get off my butt and do something!

Go to hotpads.com and plug in your address, you will see what I am seeing...

. $73,500/.175 = became the winning offer.Later on while doing my DD, I ran in through my excel, check taxes, called on insurance quotes, subtracted year 1 repairs, etc, to insure I had a great deal that I though I had.Another option is just to build an excel based on averages, then just plug the data in when chatting.

If you're not finding good wholesale deals in the first few months after spending money, don't get discouraged... keep plugging away.

Also when you are narrowed down to a specific property, leave the 50% rule behind and plug in actual/estimated numbers for PITI, PM (even if you self manage), vacancy, repairs, CapEx, admin overhead and see what your actual cash flow will be.  

They did not put the metal behind the butts, nor are they caulked.  

I'll definitely want to get plugged in to that & will look for it on FB after I've done some more reading on here.

Building trust and interest are at the heart of podcast IMHO, and that's why podcasting often turns into another plug on the book on low and no money down real estate investing *cough.

A lot of calculating, analytically-oriented investors get stuck creating spreadsheets and running equations and forget they actually have to BUY something at some point.Glad to have you here, and also utilize Meetup.com I found a lot of real estate groups on there (browser-based and iphone app) and you can get plugged in very quickly.My dayjob is real estate investing, so let's meet up sometime and go over your ideas!

You see, I truly don't like to just plug numbers in formulas.