@Scott Trench and I spoke about this just the other day, actually.I think the most common mistake for the new Realtor trying to be "REI-friendly" is that (this is a California and Bay Area / Oakland biased opinion, where everyone's a software engineer or otherwise in tech) they go memorize a bunch of math formulas.

When you do all of the math even if you make 2x or 3x the money you initially planned, if it takes you 6-10x as long, it isn't worth it.

I guess I could actually do the math. 

Hope this helps (and that i didn't screw up the math) :).jason  

I am doing the math looking for a great deal but curious on how to figure appreciation correctly to evaluate my investment.Any suggestions or tips?

The cap rate seems to be 2.7% if I'm doing my math properly but I'm not sure.

Do the math.

When you do math you’re far better off just going traditional lending and doing the 20% down on each multi or single family home.

For me it was being 18 just got my license .. tough first 3 months nothing happened .. then I made a sale to someone who was 3 hours late to the appointment but took less than 30 minutes to choose the property so the entire transaction save my 3 hour wait took me less than 4 hours total.. and I made 900.00 dollars.. before that I was bagging groceries for 2.75 and hour and only got that much because we were union. minimum wage then was 1.65 an hour.. did the math and never looked back..

As a newbie taking the baby steps and making sure the math is right before going all in I would really appreciate any feedback.