The math is fairly simple, but there are many investors who don't crunch the numbers the way they should.

The duplexes (or lack of) on realtor for my range are priced high and with some quick numbers crunching don’t have great COC return or even close to the 1% rule.

@Eric Gomez NFA's take a long time to arrive, so keep that in mind if you're in a time crunch and need to close sooner than later. 

Then you can crunch the numbers to see what it would cost to set up and operate vs. what it would bring in, enabling you to determine whether it's even worth the investment of time, money, and effort.If you get through all that and are actually making money, then you can worry about whether a CPA is necessary (usually not).

Rents and housing prices will go up because we're in a major housing supply shortage, and as more millennial try to enter the market while baby boomers are not leaving, we'll have an even worse crunch than right now before that normalizes as well. 

Everything was in a frantic crunch because I'm renting to students, which means that I needed to have leases signed in July.

I need to understand if I have a deal or not prior to sending it to lenders, so if anyone is willing to invest their time to show me how to crunch numbers properly, please DM me. 

After crunching the numbers, everything looks perfect.My real estate broker however just came back to me with some news: the zoning of the sector only allows the construction of one of the 2 buildings on that land. 

You'll have first-hand experience dealing with contractors, materials, crunching numbers and if you don't quite have that backing, it can be difficult to communicate your expectations to any teams/contacts you build OOS. 

I’m meeting with my broker tomorrow to crunch the numbers with both to see which makes more sense.