excellent,thanks ming ill check him out.

I have an Excel workbook for each property. 

@Ryan Thomson This is excellent - thank you!

Most groups will give you rates/ballpark trying to secure your business. 2) Use the free Rentalizer tool on Airdna, rabbu, alltherooms, etc. and just underwrite your deals with a lower projected revenue amount. 3) MY FAVORITE - Use Pricelabs market dashboard, you can type in a specific location and then expand 50KM around that location. you can filter a ton of key data (hottub, lakefront, bedrooms, baths, # of reviews, revenue etc) into an excel sheet and then take averages, medians, etc.

Occupancy rates are also excellent with this strategy but in most months you do make a more on a short term rental at the expense of more time for managing it.

Take a look for real estate meetups in your area as they are an excellent place to network!

Excellent goals there, happy investing! 

It has a couple drawbacks one being that it has some concrete will need to be excavated as it used to be a trailer park, but the location is excellent.

I know that networking here on Bigger Pockets is an excellent first step. 

My goal would be to be in an excellent school district (priority) and not too far from the city.