If that is what you are looking at, there are risks involved in concentrating in an area that are beyound the scope of anyone who has no development experience.

But more and more the appraisals are done as a "driveby" or "internet" appraisal, so those things do not really matter as much anymore, except maybe in the higher priced homes.

Based on my numbers I got from the internet real quick:4 units@$625/monthx12=30k30k/2=15k=my NOI.15k x10(cap rate) =150k.

Im a newbie as well and I got contracts off the internet.

Now a Renters' Market Marcus & Millichap is to release a separate report on Friday that forecasts a further 2% to 3% drop in apartment rents over the next year, most of which will be concentrated over the next six months.This is one of the unintended consequences of government policy: rising rental vacancy rates, falling rents, more losses for CMBS investors and local and regional banks, more bank failures, downward pressure on CPI (rent is largest component of CPI) ... and eventually more downward pressure on house prices as the massive government support for house prices slows (because of the price-to-rent ratio).

It's free calling using the internet (Voip).

i am currently looking to start a career in real estate investing and am looking for resources that are going to help me get started quickly and steer me in the right direction. i have little money or credit and am looking to get started as is said can be done by all of the infomercial and internet gurus, however it is hard to find a positive review for any of them. do any of them work the way they claim?

Now I have ads all over the internet and calls coming in are slow. 3 years ago nobody did property management in syracuse now everyone does it and alot of the out of town investors in syracuse have sold to local investors that manage it themselves.

Good points Hac, all viable options.Key, concentrate on just one or two strategies, trying to do too many will result in nothing getting completed.

The Internet is playing a big role as an alternate media source these days.