The strategy has been gaining popularity thanks to the numerous benefits of rent to own for each party in the transaction.

I'm having a hard time deciding what the best way to analyze the flip would be though.

And, are you confident in your ability to analyze a property and estimate rehab costs?  

, we have analyzed the numbers etc and we are ready to try to secure our first house. 

By making it an affordable Meetup group (without Guru’s involved), It could potentially gain huge popularity.

You may want to check out the calculators to help you analyze deals.

He states so twice in this thread that I can recall.The questions for the asker that would be helpful to those trying to analyze the situation (and maybe help one another should the OP and an investor collaborate) are:1. 

Hello Community,I have a deal analyzer that gives me a profit summary after I input different values related to the deal.

To analyze potential deals, what is a good interest rate guesstimate for a $250k home w/$25k down?

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