(I'm pretty confident in being able to afford both downpayments within a rather short time span).After talking to a lender today, he was actually pretty helpful and told me that it might be better to look into the primary residence first, and then go into the investment property.

Now we're in this pandemic and I'm not confident I'll get what I could have gotten for it. 

Don't buy a property hoping it'll cash flow, know or be reasonably confident that it'll cash flow.

It takes me a while to analyze a deal and even then, I am not 100% confident that my numbers are right each time.I'm trying to make my numbers as accurate as possible.Where do you all search for estimating the costs of the following:+water and sewer+garbage+gas and electricI have been listening to many podcasts and webinars and I know the answer could be as easy as googling it, but I would like to know what other, experienced investors do to estimate these costs when analyzing a deal.

It takes me a while to analyze a deal and even then, I am not 100% confident that my numbers are right each time.I'm trying to make my numbers as accurate as possible.Where do you all search for estimating the costs of the following:+water and sewer+garbage+gas and electricI have been listening to many podcasts and webinars and I know the answer could be as easy as googling it, but I would like to know what other, experienced investors do to estimate these costs when analyzing a deal.

obviously those would only work if the deal would still make sense at those prices. how confident are you that this is  a good deal and that it will work out?

I’m confident I’ll have the rehab handled.The issue is financing the rehab.

which.... did not make me feel confident in the advice I was getting. 

Now, when we talk with brokers about $8M or $12M deals, they take us seriously and are much more confident recommending our offers to the sellers... 

Had I run it through the Bigger Pockets Buy and Hold Calculator, I would have had an idea of the right purchase price to make this a better investment and had the confidence to walk away at the wrong price.