I am excited to start my real estate journey, share my experiences, and learn from everyone on BP.

You can filter by the beds and baths and other aspects to make the results as close as possible to the one you're comparing.When I build my semi-automated hotsheet for investors, I take exports from the MLS from both the sales side and the rentals side, pull them into a SQL Server database, do some data cleaning to screen out as much of the garbage as possible, and run what I call my "magic query" that joins sale listing locations to rental listing locations by a conditional match on subdivision and beds/baths, or the average of the entire MLS if the subdivision is given as "METES & BOUNDS", with a flag in the output showing that those M 'n B rental numbers are MLS-wide averages for a given beds/baths and will need a more in-depth evaluation (like rentometer) if the estimated cash on cash return for a classic 20% down scenario, looks promising. 

Job growth drives population growth, and population growth drives rental rates.Best of luck with your decision and keep us updated on your journey! 

I've seen appraisals all the time magically come in at a couple hundred bucks off from the purchasing price of hundreds of thousands of $$$.....like they can actually get THAT close! 

I'm personally going through this journey right now closer to my 40's, and I wish I had the gumption to have done this at your age! 

Good luck on your Journey!

@Felix Menendez I am in the leominster area and started the same journey you are starting about 6 months ago. 

Are there any little to no money down options for someone my particular situation or any other suggestions out there that will allow me to embark on my investing journey again? 

The magic of MLS querying can't really be done within the MLS itself because the most revealing data bubbles up when you join the for sale data with the for rent data and correlate ratios of average price in a subdivision with average rent. 

I’m interesting in starting my journey to be a real estate investor and i want to start by being a property manager for others.