Establish a relationship with someone who has gone the road before you and ask if you can shadow them on a deal analysis as they walk a property.  

Point is, when I give an investor a realistic number they can purchase a property for, it's not a shot in the dark.

I try to eat low carb 6 days a week and eat my weakness Mexican food on weekend day.The brand is Munk Pack and I got the nuts and seeds bar at Walmart in sea salt dark chocolate and it's stupid good...3g net carbs and it can kill a binge before it happens. 

Shot in the dark.

Again , I agree with your Mom, but I think a subtle down vote same as up vote won't be a dark negative. 

No 50x earnings or anything like that.The same way I never stopped buying stocks when it makes sense, I would never just be lurking in the dark waiting for a one in a lifetime opportunity.

Using the INSANE NEW math my grandsons public school enforced he would have had to decompose the numbers AND show his work or get a zero regardless of the solution.         48      +     27    =      /     \         / \  40          8   20       7         40    +    20    =  60           8    +      7   =  15           60  +   15  = 85His public school went 'covid-hybrid-zoom', so now we send him to a private school where they teach him how to solve MATH the way we did in the dark ages.

I've seen a lot of people mention Toledo for cashflow, so I started looking MF in the area and I found this property:1338 Brooke Park Drive Toledo, OH 43612 (8 Units - 2 Bed/1 Bath each) $280KI ran a rental property analysis on BP and filled out (conservatively) everything I knew how to (I don't know the area very well). 25% down, 30 year 6%, $4K monthly income ($500/unit), $3500 property taxes, $5000 annual insurance (shot in the dark, this is one of the things I have the hardest time estimating), 7% repairs/maintenance, 8% capex, 5% vacancy, 9% property management.

When you are looking for someone to shadow, keep that in mind. 

I listened to all his episodes until he went dark.