I have a duplex under contract and have had smooth sailing until the tenant of one side of the duplex will not allow anyone (inspector, owner, or me) into the unit until next Thursday. Currently the tenant does not ha...

You have been inducted into a large and diverse club of real estate investors, and I welcome you as a lifetime charter member.

My husband and I are new to real estate investing, just in our education phase and working towards our first deal, and we’re out in Gloucester.

Zoning, financing, environmental Phase I and Phase II, you may want to include geo for raw land.

In a growth phase (which you are in with only 1 property) the optimal answer is B. 

Evaluation result (took me about an hour): Just looking at the numbers, it's a no-go if I cannot get it for $240K or less without using contractors to my advantage during the inspection phase.

I bought them in 1st phase.

I am in the refinancing phase right now, and will be receiving ~$40,000 in cash out.

Here is my process I have thought out for now, please feel free to critique/provide improvements based on experience:Learn through BiggerPockets, David Greene, Gary Keller -- I personally want to avoid getting too deep into this phase, get the basics and run with itCreate a system on analyzing a property - I have my own parameters that work for me and have put them on an excel sheet - I have what I call 'quantitative' and 'qualitative' tabs that give me a 300 degree viewGet pre-approved as I am learningNext comes the Research phase (learning and researching are going together) - this is taking time.  

I've been out for almost a year and I went through the rough transition phase now and now I want to prosper.