Here are a couple articles on Real Estate Investment Deal Analysis & How To Rent Your HouseA big factor many may agree when renting out of state is having a very reliable property manager where your rental home is.

Thank you everyone in advance for your input! This is such a great community and I really appreciate any advice or input you can provide. This will be my first owner finance deal so I want to make sure I am on the rig...

I'll have to carefully analysis this deal again.  

I'm tempted to disagree, but I wanted to see what others thought.Property Summary:I've run the numbers through the deal analysis form, and after paying all expenses, I would be cash flowing $274/mo. 

Check out this article written about Real Estate Comps and scroll down to "Free House Value Sites & Paid Property Value Sites" I would also check out this article on Intro to Real Estate Deal Analysis to give you a really good idea and starting point on analyzing the numbers.

You're learning through action which beats analysis paralysis, just get with people that have done deals like this in your area and let them give you advice.

Also include expected closing costs and associated taxes and whatnot.I wouldn't show her a cash flow analysis, per se, just the numbers you need to get her to understand her side of the bargain and what she is actually getting from it.

I sent my analysis to the agent.However the agent didn't think it would matter and seem reluctant to include my justification.

My friend and neighbor has offered me a deal. He's a pure flip guy and I'm more of a buy-and-hold kind of guy. The cap rates don't excite me, but at the same time I see the equity in the deal. Read why he's brin...

Actually from living in Deltona and now this area there are several similarities in the general town development that I have seen.Daytona or Orlando may be your nearest REIA, I haven't checked for Deltona but know Orlando is the closest to here.Deltona and Palm Bay both grew very quickly residentially but lagged significantly for the commercial development and relied on nearby cities for most of their jobs and industry.Both have been picking up in the commercial development and as such I believe they will be great locations for investing, but with the note of caution that certain pockets of the towns will lag in value and thorough analysis should be performed for any opportunity.