Identify Your Financial Stage (AKA raise your FICO Score)Choose a Specific Real Estate Investing Strategy (Wholesale, Fix and Flip, Buy and Hold, Fix to Rent, SFR, Multi fam, Commercial)Pick a Target Market Decide Your Investment Property Criteria (Numbers, Numbers, Numbers.

I've saved up my target amount for a down payment.

Then when you have cash and don't need a bank, that skill will really come in handy as there are no social safety nets in place for cash buyers.

Every landlord who goes onto social media or the news and talks about reducing and forgiving rent feeds the flames of "rent reformists" who believe landlords are making way too much. 

That works out to buying about 1 of 75 houses that go for sale in our target market.

MIT predicts that this will not be the countries only bout with social distancing.

Roaches are social animals.

Lenders typically will lend easier on those properties and buyers tend to pay lower cap rates.The centers that were mid-block, behind another building, turned to the side, or weak suburban to rural locations with mainly all mom and pop tenants will likely get crushedEven when an economic recovery happens the experts are mentioning social distancing won't all of a sudden go away it will just start changing working it's way back to hopefully pre-virus ways of living or close to it as possible.

I took the risk of buying it, knowing that the pool of buyers were going to be smaller given the fact that the house had an upside down layout, meaning, all the social area was on the main floor and all the family room and bedrooms were in what you could consider the basement.

Thanks for the welcome John and I will definitely look into the meetups once we are able to leave our homes and socialize again.Quick question, what formulas do you both use to analyze a deal for rental properties?