I think a spreadsheet is in order to help me quickly determine if a property is worth looking into further detail.

Feel free to post more details if you want a more in-depth analysis.

His first advice was to learn how to walk through a property and discover all that needed to be repaired or improved.

Tons of details and complications that no guru ever seemed to mention in their courses.

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Then do a walk through and estimate rehab costs to get it rent-ready.

My buyer, a rehabber/builder and landlord in the area was already at the property before 8 am this morning with the county inspector, doing a walk through to assess a rebuild versus demo (he's going to demo it).

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I have a decent idea that around the UT campus area rents range from 400-800+ depending on what you are renting of course with 400 being an efficiency apartment.I would not spend over 30 grand on a home, would like to buy one which needs maybe 5-10k of fixing up. knox has a large amount of homes in this number bracket.My idea would be to either owner finance a home, or pay a large payment down and receive a loan from either a bank, or use some other options I have regarding acquiring the money (too many details).What do you all think of this idea?

.-- Have you personally and thoroughly inspected each property and then made a detailed list of all the repairs and improvements you feel is necessary.-- Have you put numbers to the costs, delays, and holding costs?