Before you go out and just spend a massive amount of money for CPA and/or Attorney.

In the Results link click on your address where there are various tabs and click on Neighborhood Sales.If you have a hard time with technology, you can always ask friends or family members to help you navigate the web to do some research about property values in your area.If you do find yourself entertaining an offer from an unsolicited investor: Ask to obtain, and keep, a list of the comparable property sales in your neighborhood the investor used to come up with their purchase price offer.Always keep someone else in the loop – your children, good friends, or someone you trust.Always know that you can seek legal advice – in the end, it might be worth the money you spend on a consultation with an attorney.Review the contract closely to see if it is assignable.

You may have to take a slight reduction in rent but you clearly need to focus on getting some income, not spending more money.

@Shawn McGarity it is absolutely worth it to spend time finding a good and reliable contractor.

I am very data oriented, but also very busy in my day job, i feel that spending a few hundred dollars on a property to help develop a good number or show a bad deal early on then being stuck loosing thousands at the end of a deal. 

I had some additional funds when I started but like you I was a military guy with only $9K to spend.

See if an investor typically averages thousands or tens of thousands of dollars for their time per hour then if they spend time with you they are not only not making money but losing that return per hour.So if someone spends time with a potential investor and they take 20 hours at 2,000 an hour that costs the experienced investor 40,000 in time.What Is great about Bigger Pockets is you can post when you have some time and then thousands or more can read it at their leisure and learn something without constant direct one on one involvement.

Having a security system is vital to saving costs, though it may sound like you're spending hundreds of dollars up front. 

Honestly speaking I enjoy the hunt of finding deals more than the actual deals themselves, so I don't mind spending tons of time analyzing deals and driving neighborhoods every week.

@Fernanda Netto, you're going to spend $161k on a property with an ARV of $130?