Nobody wants to get deals from someone who doesn't know how to get ARV and/or compute rehab costs, lose of trust will occur.

.), but I was married so, that didn't work.I started buying tapes (remember tapes, they'd get hung up in your tape player and wouldn't work anymore) on real estate investing, I took many seminars from speakers from a-far, digested dozens of books on investing and experimented creating buying offers using creative techniques (had to, had no money).I became an agent (that wasn't fun, but I did well) selling residential properties (that job diverted my energy from investing to driving around potential buyers), and earning almost nothing for my efforts.What I did not have when I started was a computer, no email no real estate chat rooms, no pagers, cell phones and no internet, Bigger Pockets wasn't born yet.I use to have to go to the court house and assessment office in person if I wanted to know who owned what, I use to run foreclosures after getting the information from the legal pending filing.I remember the first cell phone I purchased, it was call a 'bag phone' it was as big as a shoe box.

Was "outbid" by computer because after auction ended it immediately went back up for auction. once I realized that I dropped my bid and was only bidding in the $98-99,000 range. 

I am a computer programmer and I have been developing some of my own tools.

It's easy for someone to hide behind a computer screen and claim to be who they're not, which is why this due diligence is vital to your investing success. 

So I've tried using Podio, but, found it in my opinion too time consuming to configure and difficult to understand and I'm a computer technician.

I recently graduated with a bachelors degree in computer science and mathematics in May.

http://www.zillow.com/howto/DataCoverageZestimateA...They only give themselves 1 out of 4 stars "or unable to compute Zestimate accuracy."  

I'm sure I can find a lot of these answers on this form, unfortunately I am computer illiterate.

You find 3 to 5 RECENTLY SOLD COMPS - should be very similar houses in the same school district if possible - and you average them together on SIZE (sq. feet) and SELLING PRICE, so you can compute an AVERAGE $ PER SQ.