There is a rental property calculator on this site that helps you plug in all the numbers when trying to analyze whether a given property would make you money as a rental.

You can also go on your county auditor's website and plug in addresses to check the currently appraised value of any home in the area, and it will tell you when the last transfer of the property was and for how much.

@Chris Garzino, I did it the old fashioned way (and cheap method) of plugging criteria from my county's assessor office parcel search and looking for mismatched addresses (property vs. owner address).

Plug in your address and what you plan to rent it out for and it will pull data from similar rentals in the area to show you where yours stands.

It's reinforcing to hear that even if it's difficult and testing, if you push though and persevere, you can really kick butt.

Like I just plug in the numbers, date & amount they paid, I get the latest loan amortization schedule. 

Doing what you are doing is a great way to locate off market leads, keep plugging away, it does not happen over night and as you get better at it, so will your results.

He smoked in the house, which is strictly forbidden and decided it was a good idea to put the butts out on the white vinyl sill. 

Carbon monoxide detector is 40 bucks tops and you can just plug it in.

The statement says the courts generally uphold 5% to 10%, but that is what the court will agree to without an argument by your tenant's attorney who is telling the judge that the case needs to be thrown out because the amount of rent due is not correct because the landlord charged the tenant for late fees when the landlord cannot substantiate his actual costs with proof and records.This may seem silly until you are taken to court and the judge is drinking vodkas in plain sight where the glass looks like it is half full of water and he needs a reason to get your butt out of his face to get to his next case.I terminated 6 tenants in the past two weeks.