Originally posted by @Jay Hinrichs:you have good reason to be cautious  many many Aussies got burned by full blown spruiekers  either aussie based or US based.I wrote and an e book specifically for Aussies on what to look out for when you want to buy in the US... there is no recommendations on companies but I cover all the things you need to educated yourself on. plue Engelo is a friend of mine if you can put up with him he is a good source LOLhahaIts actually vice versa mate,I don't put up with many so we tell them to shove off :)Lisa,Definitely download Jay's E-Book as its a wealth of knowledge.Thanks

Both the softwares are easy to use and set up and very seamless

The best way to explaining this is for you to download an IRR calculator spreadsheet or build your own simple one and play around with one.For what its worth most deals I deem meeting minimal IRR standards is 13-15% but you have to dig a little deeper to uncover the real placements of cashflows and capitalization events... and then dig even deeper to verify the assumptions such as occupancy, rent increases per year, and what reversion cap rate was used.Again I don't look for IRR cause its manipulated a lot instead I look at total return on a 5 year basis.

For 400 mailed letters for me, all I had to do was pick out a template and send them the download of my list, was $381 .

Download BP’s newest book here some good due diligence in Chapter 10.

It makes tenant interaction (using portals) seamless.

(I'm not an agent and would prefer not to bug one with data request for various parts of the country.)I found that Redfin has a great "Download All" feature which exports information such as the following to a CSV format:AddressSquare footageYear buildSale priceThis would be nearly perfect, except Redfin does not cover all areas which I am trying to analyze.So, are there any other options to be able to analyze property data like this without MLS access?  

I just downloaded the Ebook and currently doing some reading and researching. 

He calls it a move out price list and he claims it is a downloadable form if you buy his book - although I didn't see it in the downloaded files I got from him.

Then, download the BiggerPockets Ultimate Beginner's Guide and start reading some more!!