After the training they go out in masses and start calling and emailing people and essentially blackball themselves but also make it much more difficult for new investors.

Essentially I am leveraging my income to build up my rental portfolio, any advice?

But at the same time there aren't many active comparable rental properties nearby, which makes determining the market rent of a property difficult.I found that using rental listings that are inactive but were recently active provides me with a lot more data for determining market rent.To do this I go to the Zillow rent estimator tool and enter my property's address as well as a (very) rough estimate of the rent.

BP has various tools and calculators available to help you analyze your deals (rental, flips, wholesale, etc.), feel free to use them: https://www.biggerpockets.com/investment-calculators 7.

Otherwise insurance carriers wouldn't spend many millions of dollars on risk management research and tools every year. 

Essentially road map building

I worked for WAMU as an executive in 2008 they were bankrupted by Chase essentially.

These are essentially a cash play so you would, need to have funds previous to the auction.

BP has various tools and calculators available to help you analyze your deals (rental, flips, wholesale, etc.), feel free to use them: https://www.biggerpockets.com/investment-calculators 7.

Either way, I don't think it's the tools/process that needs revamping.