However, I find it very time consuming to go to all the different article directories.

I'm not sure I am ready to dive into Quickbooks at the moment, but your excel file sounds like an idea that could work for me.

I don't want to be caught with my pants down, and not be able to handle everything if I get bombarded (I want to get bombarded but I want to be ready!

My problem is this, I am ready and the only thing that stops me is I am not the one with the money, but I have the drive and knowledge.

And when your ready to invest they will hold your hand through the whole process.

We have owner financed them and are ready to sell.

No rehab needed brand new and ready to rent out .

Why pay for a financial analysis tool when you can build one that suits your investment strategy and your investing criteria easily enough...In fact, the first thing I would recommend to any up-and-coming investor would be to sit down and create a spreadsheet that will allow you to fully analyze a deal (SFH or multi-unit) in about 5 minutes using pro-forma data.If you can't create that kind of spreadsheet, you're probably not ready to start investing...

Be prepared on either end to be fair, up front and get ready to walk whenr some jerk sticks his 2 cents into your deal and throws his weight around.I find the agent of the seller is the ugliest during negotiations on low ball offers.

The second thing I see newbie’s do is the life story type where a newbie’s give you his/her life story about what they are doing in life and what they do and now there on hard times and they just have to make real estate work, now I’m sorry for your misfortune and I’m even sorrier if you’ve spent countless hours reading going to seminars and now you READY to do real estate but the simple fact is action speaks louder than words, so if you are spending all of your free time reading up on real estate your failing.