Quote from @Cédric Le May: Hello everyone, just started my journey to invest in rental properties but I am working full time so for now, I am just reading articles/forums, watching videos online and trying to learn as much as I can before investing.

If the software is not simplifying your life or making you more accurate, you shouldn't use it.Software does have extremely helpful features like online payments, marketing syndication (click a button, and your property is advertised on multiple sites), electronic document review/signing, maintenance tracking, and owner reports.

He wants the proceeds from his home sale, to be used to pay off the $65k Reverse Mortgage on his Parents' home.  

Purchase price: $225,000 Cash invested: $20,000 Sale price: $280,000 I purchased this property as a subto with the intention of doing a fix/flip.

It still wouldn't be enough profit to do this full time without another job.I see lots of people online who have quit their full time job and are doing Real Estate Investing only, buying new cars, being able to travel and I am wondering if this is just their "online persona", it is because of the amount of properties they have that has given them this financial/work free freedom or I need to find somewhere else that would give me a larger return.Either way I am still moving forward on my journey :) I was just curious because that would be my dream goal to not have a 9-5 and my investments give me that freedom.

The owners are feeling pain from their property it could be the children who inherited the property, poor management leading to deferred maintenance, vacancies, and many other inefficiencies.Most owners in this spot are looking for a way to end the pain they are feeling and many will take a path that solves their problems and gives them something in return to justify the sale.

In most of the 35 or so deals i've been in, i've had little to no taxable distributions until year 7-8 on our typical 10-year hold period, so a 10% cash on cash return is an effective 13.33% for example when you compare to other taxable returns if at 25% bracket,        The syndication next can roll the sale proceeds into another larger investment, like-kind, 1031 exchange and not have to pay any long-term capital gains taxes, about 20-23.8% nor any depreciation recapture tax about 25%.

I just sold a spec, I built a house for my self last year and finished a spec this year, I bough the lots at tax sale, and I was the GC, HVAC, Tile, Flooring, Cabinet, Painter, and Misc. guy, made a nice profit, but the crappy part is taxes, its like a flip, short term gains. good luck!

Also search for your top 2-3 names online first prior to landing on one.

Estimate the potential profit from the sale of the property, taking into account the current market value and the cost of prepayment penalties.