Hey @Matthew Samson, regarding "figuring out the financials" for 0-5 small properties, you can do this easily yourself just using excel or another free method.

For projections, you can use excel spreadsheet as it will be cheaper and easy to manage. 

Facebook groups are an excellent resource for this. 

That's the fastest way you will get sued.

Hone your Excel skills by creating pro-formas to practice your 1% rule underwriting while never touring a single property 4.

I work with an excellent closing attorney & title company in VA that is very investor friendly and familiar with wholesaler transactions.

If you only have the one property, I would suggest scraping the software and use excel or do it by hand.

Population growth >1.5% (based on https://www.nar.realtor/blogs/economists-outlook/the-nations-most-popular-and-fastest-growing-metropolitan-areas-in-2023?

That's what it costs to get your money and the lender gets 900 dollars to fill out a template, another 900 to fill out an excel sheet, and pockets the spread on the appraisal.

Unless I think I can time the market, I am going to keep deploying my cash in something better than that.I am also bearish on treasuries, which I think will generally see yields rise (and values decline) on anything with longer maturities (yield curve normalization and long term downward pressure on the ratings/"safety" of US gov't debt).All excellent points- I agree with you on assumable mortgages, but I think the challenge is that most of those are owner occupy and the banks typically won't allow them to be assumed by investors.