You win $1,000 if you're right and lose $500 if you're wrong.

A good tool to utilize is excel, you can evaluate a cash flow in minutes.Monthly payment is =PMT(intrate,term,principle) it would look like=PMT(5%/12,180,100000) This is $100,000 at 5% term of 15 years.Then place your estimated occupancy rate, insurance, taxes, an allotment for improvements down the road into a pivot table to automatically subtract.

Its better to walk away from a deal than to take any deal which could turn bad.I usually track how many deals I'm making and how many I win.

Jeff Brown's BP podcast 017 and Dave Van Horn's BP podcast 028 are excellent ones to listen to regarding note investing.  

I own a  4-plex in Colorado Springs and have an excellent property manager there if you ever need one.

You may win big,  but you may not.

Being on the investor side of syndication would be a great way to start for anyone who lives in a hot market and can't exactly pick up and move to start full time in RE, heck just reading an executive summery that was put together by a half way decent RE syndicator is excellent education in and of itself!  

If they decide to move in fear of losing their voucher, it will be a win win situation for both of us.

BUT I think you win the award.

There have been some big employment wins at the airport and Loves Park is growing.