These will help you evaluate properties.Check out the podcasts, they are really helpful when starting out.Good Luck and welcome to BP

Lenders use it to evaluate your creditworthiness.

Hi Everyone, I'm new here and seeking some opinions on offloading a rental property.Background: 2K sq ft single family home in HOT market in Colorado. I've owned it 2 years and break even on the rent. I intended to fi...

The seller (Realtor) tells me there are no previous record of expenses to evaluate.

In the SECs own words 'all non-accredited investors, either alone or with a purchaser representative, must meet the legal standard of having sufficient knowledge and experience in financial and business matters to be capable of evaluating the merits and risks of the prospective investment'.

Focus on metrics of evaluating as a rental property.

So we are evaluating a property and our agent is attempting to set up a showing and the tenants won't respond to the sellers agent.

Use it for taxes etc.If you spend substantial time "living" elsewhere treat it like an IRS mileage log and document times. 

Look at all of these sources to evaluate the market.  

I am evaluating something similar.