So, if you have a full time job you have to spend 2081 hours per year on real estate.You're actually much deeper in the hole than you think.

I'll look deeper into it!

To go further you need to make adjustment to your comparable properties to make them more like the subject, just as in appraising value, but with a much deeper approach.

I'll download the newest BP book and dive right in!

I work full time as a contractor but have been using every bit of free time I have digging into research from this website, as well as many others (including 123..Flip) to prepare myself to dive into the real estate investment arena.I recently purchased, renovated, and put my first home up for sale in Petworth, D.C. and, while my ROI potential is slim, I learned a ton from gutting the home and getting a feel for what I'm going to be dealing with in the area.I currently live downtown with my Uncle and, on top of pursuing several goals, am looking to find a good property within the city that I can fix up to live in/rent out the rest.My goals are:1.)

Then I finally decided to just dive in after putting a plan together.

Then I spoke to my acquisitions manager and was able to really dive in deeper with him on some leads he was working on, and realized he was estimating 20 k on a condo that I thought would actually only take about 8k.  

I am about to dive in with a buy and hold strategy in mind.

My thoughts are a couple big repairs, issues or eviction and I can dip even deeper into the loss of equity.

Once you decide on the way you would like to go, then you can dive into really learning about that particular type of investing and get started!