Would You Use AI to Analyze Rental or Flip Properties? 🤨

[Alex Larcheveque]

Hi everyone,

I’m exploring a tool idea and would love some honest feedback from active investors.

How do you currently analyze potential deals? Specifically:

- Estimating cash flow
- Evaluating long-term appreciation potential
- Understanding neighborhood demographics
- Estimating renovation costs

I’m working on a tool where:

- You paste a Zillow link.

The system uses AI to:

- Analyze cash flow potential via Rentometer rents
- Predict appreciation based on historical trends
- Break down local demographic data

Goal: Automate the time-consuming parts of deal analysis and help investors screen properties faster. 

Would you be willing to pay $20/mo. for something like this? Brutal feedback welcome!

[Nate Marshall]

Quote from @Alex Larcheveque:

Hi everyone,

I’m exploring a tool idea and would love some honest feedback from active investors.

How do you currently analyze potential deals? Specifically:

- Estimating cash flow
- Evaluating long-term appreciation potential
- Understanding neighborhood demographics
- Estimating renovation costs

I’m working on a tool where:

- You paste a Zillow link.

The system uses AI to:

- Analyze cash flow potential via Rentometer rents
- Predict appreciation based on historical trends
- Break down local demographic data

Goal: Automate the time-consuming parts of deal analysis and help investors screen properties faster. 

Would you be willing to pay $20/mo. for something like this? Brutal feedback welcome!

"Alex, I appreciate how direct you are about looking for feedback. I think you’re onto something, but Brett raises an important point — the baseline tools (like BP’s HouseCanary integration or even just ChatGPT with a Zillow link) already cover a lot of ground.

Where I see real value is in the hyper-local layer. Things like:

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  Renovation costs adjusted for local contractor rates (not national averages).

  
  
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  Neighborhood data that isn’t just demographics, but factors investors actually track — school rezoning, insurance costs, landlord/tenant laws, etc.

  
  
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  Cash flow assumptions that can be tweaked for different investor profiles (flippers vs. buy-and-hold vs. BRRRR).

  
  

For $20/month, the bar is high because many investors already stitch together free/cheap tools. But if you can make it hyper-local, customizable, and dead simple to use, then it’s less about competing with ChatGPT and more about giving investors a tool that speaks their language in their market.

Curious — how are you thinking about the renovation cost side? That’s where most tools I’ve seen fall flat."