Honestly in any case, you should have skin in the game before an investor decides to go with you. or you better have a lot of assets in your name that can be used as collateral if you want to go the no money down route.

I have a mentor but he's very old school and doesn't use the internet or fancy things like the calculator.

I'm not really keen on showing that info this early in the game?

Rushing into the wrong deal can kill your career in this game.

Both are the same but one is interviewing men and the other women.I did find interesting similarities between the upper half of income earners vs the lower half.Granted, the people barely scraping by are going to have a much harder time getting involved in this game, but all the same, it's a quick read that hopefully reaffirms what most of us are trying to do....be financially well off! 

@Alex Craig  good luck on your chicken shop.. you going to franchise that bad boy and get out of the RE game and make some serious dough as a Franchisor ?

Also, from discussing with friends and perusing the internet, it seems like Stockton is on an upswing.

Different times, different environment.After making the decision to go back into the game, and after months of reading and listening to BP podcasts, we finally pulled the trigger and put an offer on a house in Vallejo CA.

Ask for Nancy to walk you through the process.What's the end game for this deal?  

We need to find creative ways to get our property in front of students/realtors as most tenants search the Internet and although our property is approximately one mile from campus it does not appear in searches when looking in the specific city because it is actually in a different city!