I need help in evaluating whether or not this would be worth pursuing as a rental unit.

Saturday is a workshop to view properties and evaluate properties.

At this point we will evaluate where we are and the time that we have invested weekly in our rentals and figure out if we want to go bigger or stay small.  

The irony of that, however, is my father is a Plumbing Contractor, and my brother is a member of the Millwright's Union, so would be a good place to start with evaluating properties. 

As you evaluate deals in your market and neighborhood, you'll determine what your own rule of thumb is.

Honest evaluations of rental units.  

If you have any excel models I'd love to see them and understand what kind of assumptions you use when evaluating deals in the Atlanta area.I majored in Finance at Wharton so I know a thing or two about investment evaluation, but I have no experience with real estate so I'm just looking to learn the ropes of what a good deal vs. a bad deal might look like.

Log into Rentometer.com.  

It only takes a short time to evaluate a client and to find out if they are serious and capable of buying real estate from you.

I'm in the learning phase before buying my first rental.  I'm thinking I will do a fourplex, owner occupied.  I've found a target neighborhood where the numbers (1% rule, 50% rule) seem to work and the tenants are des...