Learn to analyze properties on your own.  

This option will also give you valuable experience analyzing deals, negotiating with sellers and eventually buyers when you get a deal under contract. 

Second it is important to analyze the numbers and know what type of cash flow you want from your property once leveraged.  

@Leigh Ann Smith Is your excel sheet similar in function to the calculator on here for analyzing?

So when you initially clicked on it it would have asked you to update your real estate experience and then there would be suggestions like read the ultimate beginners guide, or analyze a deal, ect.

When you feel you know what you need to invest in a whatever segment of REI you decide you can start to assemble you team and analyzing the market you want to enter. 

Before that I ran a popular neighborhood blog where I would occasionally talk about real estate and development in a transitional neighborhood.

When I started I found that I did a better job understanding  analyzing better when I worked out the deals myself that helped me get comfortable with numbers based on what I sought as a return.  

It would be tremendously valuable to me if I were able to contact realtors now get some info on properties (income statement, rent roll etc) and then analyze them.

Hello members,I'm analyzing a rental property I'm planning to buy.