Also some of these condos have an owner occupancy for 1 year rule, meaning you can't rent it out - period - for at least one year.

Speaking broadly, I think the best investment strategy involves finding properties that aren't fully utilizing their income potential.At a more sophisticated level, that might mean buying a fourplex of large two-bedrooms, making relocation agreements with the tenants, remodeling the units into three-bedrooms, and then renting them out at market rents.

It's not 100% accurate because one person might have a smartphone and one or two tablets, but it's one more data point that helps me keep tabs on my owners' properties.Hope that helps!

We have a condo that we plan to keep as a rental and start building a portfolio.

What I mean is this. 

Keep track of all that.You can also use software like dealfinder, propstream, prophawk and I'm sure others.There are free AVMs available, but for the most part I think the free ones aren't any better than Zmate which is most often horrilble. 

I mean really where can you buy a rehab home in a big metro on the east coast for those dollars.. 

I keep a running excel sheet going of market rents in my area as well.

I get it.If you still think you can direct me to direct step by step information to get me started...and I can always keep future consideration open to your course...would be very appreciated.  

He wanted me to sign a Confessions of Judgement which basically means DJ can claim I talked about him and charge me half a million each time.