Getting a broad perspectives of views and opinions on your future deals and ideas that comes with being an investor can be extremely helpful.

I have been working diligently to educate myself, and just when I think I understand my best strategy, I learn something else or get clarification that changes my view, and I would love some wisdom! 

I would draw scale floor plans and elevation views of my dream homes for fun.

So my view on marketing might be skewed, but you should at least have gotten some interest I think.

I agree that vacancy is harder to estimate, and talking to local PM or two like @Nathan G. suggested can give you a solid bird's eye view of the market.  

I would also recommend doing what I did and having lunch or beers with a local successful agent and asking all these questions, and they can give you a hyper-local view of their costs and requirements. 

View report*This link comes directly from our calculators, based on information input by the member who posted.This is a duplex, 5% down with $7k estimated closing costs. 

I have experience in the large commercial space through my job and am interested in reading more about that from an investors point of view.

I'm just using the basic parcel dimensions from various muni GIS files and Microsoft's awesome building footprint file https://github.com/Microsoft/U... for the building footprints on the parcels.

After some initial activity and one round of viewings, we've not heard anything from him at all in well over 2 months.