I'm a newbie from Chicago looking to start out in real estate investing.I'm a lawyer by trade, but I think it would be wise to branch out into real estate investing to diversify my retirement portfolio and to have a bit of extra income each month.

The issue is that you have other identification abilities and are not restricted to the three-day method for some reason.

When analyzing a potential deal, what methods do you use for integrating this expected difference in repair/turnover cost into your analysis of the deal?

If so, you have "inventory that is available for sale to the public" and not "property held for investment in a trade or business" as required by Section 1031.Michael Lantrip. 

@Donna I have 2 methods. 1 I went through local classified ads and looked up keywords like we buy houses,sell house fast,I buy houses etc..

great to hear, various marketing methods yielding results

I am Craig, I am an aspiring individual looking at real estate as one method to achieve certain life goals. 

Once it does I would just go for it would you invest in a property unseen with the method mentioned above ?

Property managers and landlords would be wise to utilize the following methods:1.

I'm a part time stock market trader and that took me 3yrs of my busy life to finally click and start placing trades confidently so I know this field is probably not that different but I will take it 1 day at a time.