I just finished reading "the book on rental property investing" by Brandon Turner and he goes quite in-depth with it but going back and rereading a chapter every time I want to analyze a property seems very time-consuming.

Save your license fees, MLS fees, education fees, E&O fees, and all the other fees you have to pay and just be a much better educated consumer than the average Joe. 

Complex buying behaviour is encountered particularly when consumers are buying an expensive product.

However, this is not always the case so buying solely for appreciation makes one more of a gambler.My suggestion to you is to buy investment properties based on Cash Flow as opposed to appreciation, this means that if for any reason your property did not appreciate like you thought (or at all) it would still be bringing in a healthy income.

You want to make sure you have a healthy and thriving business on your hands! 

We handled the case as professionally and as empathetically as possible, but at some point, we felt that you should also assume part of the responsibility - after all, we do not have unlimited resources either.Even so, we still offered a very healthy compensation, which we really hoped you would accept.

Are there a lot of jobs in the area and is the economy healthy?

Whenever my wife and I hear one of our residents say something like that, we KNOW that we'll never run out of a healthy supply of tenants who will support our retirement.We also realize that they have as many votes as we do in elections, but that's a whole other conversation.

So far i've made a few offers, where rents would justify a healthy cash flow. 

If a lender won't disclose their fees early, I assume they're just trying to string me along and then drop a big fee (and then try to scare me that I can't close on time without them).We're definitely moving away from an environment where consumers are ok with lenders hiding fees and limiting folks ability to shop around.