Zillow Offers purchased residential homes based on the popular "Zestimate" pricing algorithm.

Cozy.co was really popular but recently was acquired by Apartments.com.

I am in the process of analyzing a fully occupied quadplex in a rural community in Iowa.

The smaller tenants and less sophisticated want gross or Net leases. if you get a bigger tenant, they can handle NNN leasing.You need to come up with a process that analyzes both USE and USER.

Are you using any type of spread sheet to analyze the deal?

Would it be a good idea to even start analyzing properties?

I am currently pre approved at 5% and have been analyzing deals with this figure.

We did hundreds of these in years past when cash sales or sales were very tough to find. as pointed out its not as popular now because most folks can sell to new buyer who CAN get a new loan and cash everyone out.. 

You can also look up median rents in any city with census data but I believe that is a inclusive of all housing types, sizes, bedroom/bathrooms, etc. so I wouldn’t use that to analyze a specific deal but not a bad option when analyzing markets. 

My agent can find the deal but I still do my due dilligence, analyze numbers and get an independent inspections.