In order to be respected, you need to follow through, deliver, leave plenty of margin for the cash buyer, and make sure you have accurate numbers.

It must be followed with more thorough analyses of actual numbers, using more robust measures such as CAP Rate, PV, and IRR.All that said, any serious investor really needs to educate him/herself on the more accurate and conclusive measures for investment analysis.

Not every investor will know that information ( so again providing inspection, and accurate break down on rehab.

I would then work with our father to actually build a SFR on the land to eventually sell.I'll learn some more info in the days to come and can then run some accurate numbers but for now, does anyone know about the feasibility of doing something like this?

Not to be cynical, but you could tell them to take their time and remind them you earn interest by the day.Paid back to me means cleared funds in my account; and these must be accurate.

People interact with data differently and I would be interested in what the community would like to improve upon: better data reliability, more unique insightful data, more accurate data interpretation tools or simply better coffee in the morning?

Its a gamble sure but the historic return on the stock market is 8% a year. 

You can also hit Craigslist to see what homes in that area are renting for.For online resources, we find Rentometer.com to be very accurate for most of metro Atlanta.

A tape measure has helped me get bids faster and more accurately over the phone.

Get some ideas of what you will be able to borrow, and what your cost of capital will be.This will make shopping for deals much more fruitful, and also make your ROI calculations more accurate (since you'll have a clearer idea of how much you'll be paying to the lender).Feel free to contact me directly if you have any more questions.