My name in Evan Renaud and fairly new to bigger pockets forum after months of podcasts and books. 

I went with him one day.. now to be fair he had a bunch of Victorians that had 4 to 8 doors in each building so it was not like dirivng to 100 houses. 

You also want to talk to the owners and get an idea of all the expenses they have gone through for maintaining the property.

@Preston Duron There are a number of ways you can go if you are looking for something fairly passive to get into. 

I do like CA as an overall market as the population is increasing, housing is scarce, and property taxes are fairly low (1%). 

Even if one can find a cash flow property, there's a price in one's time in maintaining and minimizing vacancies. 

., and I figured a great way to learn would be to just jump in with a couple example properties instead of using hypothetical properties.House 1: https://www.redfin.com/WI/Eau-Claire/430-Ferry-St-...Well-maintained tri-plex.

You don't wan to be out there spinning your wheels for no reason.As an investor, and investor's agent myself, I've found my biggest value add is being able to develop a fairly accurate scope of work for the investor when walking a property before having contractors out. 

I'm fairly new to the forums myself, but I've been listening to the podcast (which you should probably check out if you haven't already) and reading articles on the site for over a year now and I'm getting ready to jump in and start on my first deal as well. 

Not to mention (since you're in Little Rock) how you look at economic vacancy between, let's say the River Market and something off of Mabelvale Pike.What's more material for you (and something that's fairly constant) is the amortization table that your lender will use.