RUN THE COMPS: Pull rent, sale, expense, and real estate tax comps for analysis to determine if the rents / value / operating expenses / real estate taxes are above or below market (which determines whether it's a good deal or not)-Rent Comps: Pull a dataset of rent comps from similar buildings in the same neighborhood / surrounding ZIP-codes so you can determine whether or not the rents at the property you're buying are under market.

He refinanced after twelve months, pulled out enough cash to buy his next place in Worcester, and kept going.

Pick one asset focus in your market (small multis or SFRs), define a tight buy box, and run a daily noise-to-numbers pipeline: pull listings, auto-scrape key fields, flag comps, and output a quick pass/fail so you can underwrite 5–10 a day and make offers.

Quote from @Jason Bobby: Quote from @Cliff Benner: @Jason Bobby I have tried Stessa and I didn't Like it, I am an Accountant and went to School for Accounting, so for me I needed a software that allowed me to make Journal Entries and at the time I used Stessa, I was unable to do that, and I did not like the way the reports read when I pulled a P&L & Balance Sheet.I have found Wave to be a decent software, it is just a free General Ledger Bookkeeping software, not industry specific at all, but allows integrations.

Would like to pull 150k.

After denying sourcing funds, we seemed to get over the temporarily, and we had another closing they had promised was happening a month after original closing, well it didn’t , when I called it took two to theee days for a return call , they said they didn’t send funds to the closing because underwriter just did a soft credit check and said my credit was below their threshold, verbally saying 100 point less than what we stated, I had pulled credit before contacting and starting the process and signing contract as part of the I want no suprises thing, I couldn’t understand how they are reading or how it could drop in a 1 month period, so I pulled it again, but it’s still showing 700’s , just a few points less than when we started.

About to try and pull some government list. 

Every investor has their own “must-have” metrics before pulling the trigger.

Quote from @Brian Binkley: Well, after listening to the the various BP podcasts for way too long, we finally pulled the trigger and have our first purchase agreement. 

We stay away from pull-out couches as that is our business model.I'm not a fan of pull-out couches or any situation that might involve myself or others sleeping in the living room but felt like it was expected for STRs.