Talk with local brokers, property managers and other investors.In addition, you watch and learn the market in your area: 1. watch what other MF properties trade for 2. watch what rents for other MF properties do3. watch what vacancy and collection rates areAnd slowly over time, one can get a sense of the market and start to make some reasonable rational projections over time.My final thought is to understand - all of this analysis is simply making assumptions about what will happen in the future.

As a real estate entrepreneur, you (should) have a team of trusted trades, such as kitchen/bath pros, flooring, roofing, electrical, etc. as well as trusted consultants, such as accountant, attorney, mentors, etc.

So you 1031 exchanged and "traded up" from your single family properties to multi family?

This investor was also known in town for owning a 2015 McLaren 650s that he had traded in to his private lender to catch up on mortgage payments.

If you can hook up with a more experienced partner for your first few deals, the lessons learned are generally well worth the trade off / profit sharing. 

Hello everyone. I read a great article recently regarding cash for keys and how its a cheaper and less time consuming process but then it provoked this question I now ask here. Wouldn’t this process be like harvesting...

Any return is possible but involves trade offs.If you are saving for a purchase, it is normally best to keep it in a low risk account to keep you on track for said planned purchase.Some people like to keep their cash reserves in index funds.

Upper is 99.9% ready, so will see some income soon.Lower needs all trades to finish bath and kitchen.

Now the different trades are coming in to to review all the different areas (electrical, HVAC, plumbing etc.). 

I am a property damage estimator by trade so I believe that will help on my journey.