When I started out going to these meetings in my area, they actually showed me how to evaluate a property, how much I should offer, showed me the calculations to determine what the cash on cash return would be.

Hi Carl,Since I am not a RE agent I have used Redfin to evaluate and find all my deals but I use agent that I work with to submit offers for me.

I like to evaluate the profitability of each deal individually.  

A Hard Money Lender will evaluate your deal on its merits and will usually prioritize a good deal over your personal DTI.  

Of course the specific numbers, property condition, and demographics of the deal are vital to evaluating it.  

Allied offers online courses which were about $600 but some of the courses required 1300 minutes of "coursework" meaning that you had to be logged in and going through the material.Champions school of real estate is a live lecture course held at various locations.

Would you have a little time (about 30 minutes) so I can pick your brain on how to evaluate the firm?

After about 6 months of evaluating deals and reading TONS of information in books, forums and listening to podcasts, my fiancé and I just closed on our first duplex on 01/04/16.

I then logged onto the cities tourism website and  found that 3/4 of the year the largest demographic is baby boomers who are retired.  

I just look at every area I go to and evaluate if it works in my model.