That's when you start to know your market and when you have a grasp on property values by area, then and only then are you ready to pull the trigger and buy something.  

How much income must the property generate to make you pull the trigger on a sale. 

The loan might trigger UBIT tax which can be as high as a brutal 39.6%.  

Just keep educating yourself and above all, pull the trigger at some point to get your feet wet. 

I am definitely going to do more research on this topic before pulling the trigger.

Now that I'm putting money into it, it's good to have some sense of expectation but will never really know until I pull the trigger.

@Cedric Stout - Just out of curiosity I'm wondering if you pulled the trigger with Podio?

Ok, so I've been analyzing potential deals for 2 months (maybe 40-50 total) or so and am getting an itchy trigger finger for my first deal. 

However, from personal experience, if you want to continue buying beyond your first property, it gets way, way easier.I think there's an inclination for people starting out to get bogged down by analysis paralysis... so they look exclusively at the numbers and try to quantify all of the risks in the property before pulling the trigger, but then never actually do. 

@Chris Pohlson: (I am not an attorney): Under the Garn-St Germain's Act of 1982, one can transfer the property into an inter vivos trust in which the borrower is an remains the beneficiary.... which does not trigger the "due-on-sale" clause.Generally this is done in coordinate with Estate Planning, where the trusts and other entities are appropriately created.