I'm curious if anyone has experience using a Virtual Assistant to manage your books via Quick Books or some other accounting software?

I was planning on holding on to it and rent it out (~$3850/mo) but unfortunately when I run the numbers via the BP Rental Calculator there is a pretty big negative cash flow (~$600/mo) so that would obviously be a pretty bad investment decision.

I'm currently working on placing bids for my first deal in Chicago with all the knowledge I've gained via the bigger pockets community over the past few months.

Say a deal lands in my lap tomorrow, and I have everything in place to pull the trigger on it.

RE is an industry that tends to reward those who stay liquid and wait for things to fall into their lap.

Always deals to be had, what sort of geographical boundaries do you have?

Another concern is that yYou're using city boundaries for your data set which is a bit limiting and precludes apples-to-apples comparison across multiple cities.

I would suggest driving for houses with a target mailing to only properties that you identify via your drive for houses.  

I have an agent proposing certain terms and I'd like to get these terms here at BP.One of the terms proposes that agent can sell property for 185k if he can sell it now (via off market, other investors, etc).

I do this via calls (VMs), text messages, and emails so I that have a record.If after 5 days of trying to contact them in all ways that I can and even stopping by to try to talk to them at the rental I will reposes the property and store any items they have left behind as required by the law.