Tons of manual data entry and confusion.Then there's is QBO: QuickBooks Online.

Get your appraisals in the late summer or fall because they will have fresh data for comparisons.

I have been recently been doing quite a bit of research exploring possiblities for my IRA. 

I'm not an attorney, so you are probably best off talking to one licensed in the state of the subject proberty... but one option you might explore is that the seller places money in an escrow account to be paid wholly or partially to you in the event the tenant does not vacate, or the money is returned to the seller after the tenant in question has vacated.

Just curious if anyone could offer their own data or suggestions on a resource where I could get an example of rental trend for the last 10 years, for a typical 3/2 1400 sqft in Eastern Memphis (Cordova, Bartlett, 31833).

Market AnalysisZip code:Crime data (www.crimereports.com/) Gross assessment:Invisible borders?

I would generally discount the notion that 'duplexes are better than SFH' unless you wanted to house hack or the agent justified her opinion with some data for your market.

PPU charts that could skew the data (class of property as an example).Cheers...

But it has the tight timelines to complete - no problem because you've had the time to explore and educate yourself and can start to really let that REI freak flag fly.If you can't negotiate something like that I'd say you're better off going totally passive and treating this as a retirement account for the near term.

Applicants are not people, they are a collection of data and facts.