Hello, I am commiting myself to finding a good deal on a mfh that I can buy for no or low money down to do a househacking setup, but I need an agent to help me find the deals as I am not learned in analysis yet.

Other than the typical analysis points, anything specific to this area I should be looking at?

I have a board across from my desk that has all my properties and their expenses/ income on it ( Quartet dry erase planner) i can tell you right now that the " average" cost per bedroom for a house where i invest, will cost me $175 / month. so a 4 bedroom house will run me $700 to run that house ( not including mortgage) but that's taxes, insurance, water/ sewer, utilities if i pay some, garbage, maintenance ( snow and lawn), leasing fee, and PM %. so when i look at a house to buy, i can do a quick analysis of it based on the amount of bedrooms and what my mortgage would be if i would make money, those are my standard " hard costs". yes if someone has to go there and do work, if its a contractor or one of their handyman, you will get charged for it, and that would come out of the money you allowed for such maintenance.

If you wanted to gauge value based on comparative analysis, maybe ask a realtor to help comp things out.

Up until that point though, for analysis purposes, I would plan on a re-assessment based on either purchase or appraised value.....

The deal analysis link is HERE.

Unless you are talking about a program I am not familiar with I would make sure your financing is correct.As far as analysis of cash flow you need to provide expense data.Again please ensure you are able to only live there for a couple of months.  

I need accurate utility numbers to include for my deal analysis.

Multifamily deals close all the time with deal analysis that is compiled by apartment and mortgage brokers (and buyers) when the seller's records are less than stellar.  

I've had just 3 possible deals that I thought were going somewhere, but after more analysis, I had to let them go because they weren't going to work out.