Go slow ,take your time,,,glean knowledge,,,,check things out before you sign hard,,,,

I guess you put up with a lot of pitches & hype for the occasional nugget of wisdom that you glean.

Buy many glean the good stuff chunk the rest

What info can I glean from this number?

IE buy house fix it rent it.. stay on top of tenant.. all of this knowledge for sure can be gleaned on a site like this were you have thousands of full time owner operators living the dream and willing to share their experiences. 

you would need to dig into the threads but here is what I have gleaned from the threads.1. buy Vacant D / F class generally cheapest home in the MSA for very little money2. say its great area just 4 walls and a roof and sell for 40 to 50k  ( price point that gets a lot of cash buyers)3. woefully underestimate rehab costs4. assertions that rehab funds were transmitted and no rehab was done.5. unclear on Morris license issues is he selling without a license6.

If you merely put up a good show, on the other hand, such as listing it for rent at an amount that is significantly higher than market, or not even listing it at all, the IRS will see right through that.Other common sense evidence of intent can be gleaned from a review of the case law (i.e., other people’s mistakes):Don’t have plans drawn up for your principal residence or a vacation home just before or after the exchange.Don’t move into the house right after the exchange, even on a temporary basis.Don’t make the contract to acquire the replacement property contingent upon the sale of your principal residence.Use a reasonable and significant amount of advertising or listings in order to rent the property at a marketable rental amount.Document how you arrived at the asking price of the rent.Don’t start construction on preparing the house for your personal use right after acquiring it.Make sure that the restrictive covenants of the replacement property (or condo documents) allow it to be rented out.Document your efforts to rent the house out including names and contact information for potential tenants who looked at it.

You should be able to glean a lot about their group dynamics from this meeting, I.e. who is the leader who follows, who is picky or pragmatic.

At that level we also had access to credit reports and could glean information from there as well.

That being said here are a few tips I've gleaned from different sources over the years.If you are looking at it from a homeowner perspective looking to offset costs: The standard seems to be if you can rent it out for 17 weeks at what your monthly PITI+ HOA (if you have it), you can "break even".