One of the best ways of determining if it's the best time or not, is to get a professional Comparative Market Analysis for your property.As an agent, I have access to RMLS of Portland and SW Washington and I'm happy to do that for you, for free.

Analysis shows perhaps $300/month cash-flow.Does anyone have any opinions if this is a good investment?

As for the Champaign/Urbana market, I think Scott's analysis above was spot on.

Try reading here:http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/432/topics/86771-fourplex-analysis-help?

I'm new to BP after finding it a month or so ago while searching for a good rental property analysis spreadsheet.I usually don't like to give up the email addy, but I'm glad I did in this case because that's how I learned about the podcast.

You have a perfect benchmark located close to this property that gives you a solid base for many of the inputs to your analysis.

And you're right, a lot of "for rent" signs should make you cautiousReading more analysis of other folks' deals on BP will help you gain confidence as well.

I submitted an offer on a property that I looking at flipping. I haven't heard back yet. I'm expecting to get a response tomorrow.

I wanted to post the numbers and get everyone's thoughts on the overall d...

Brian Woods  Lol I'm not an IT guy :-P, but I do find it very useful; something in particular most people I know don't seem to be aware of is that you can screen share; to me, that alone makes paying a little bit monthly worthwhile; so much easier to discuss details, especially involving analysis, etc, when you can actually see it in front of you.