The lower offers from locals citing the flood zone as a detractor are indicative of the challenges in pricing such properties.Comparing your property to a similar one listed at 1.2 million is useful, but its prolonged time on the market suggests overpricing, possibly due to the flood zone challenges.Your target selling price of $650,000 might seem reasonable given the growth prospects of the area and the property's attributes.

The other thing that hasn't been mentioned is the opportunity costs associated with either high turnover or prolonged periods of vacancy. 

If you could prolong repairs about 6 months, you can get started with basic and some reserves in hand..my 2 cents...GL.

If you buy the filters and call on your tenant to collect the rent and replace their filter every month, it will give you a reason to get inside the unit and at the same time prolong the life of your asset!

My educated guess is that there will be a large swath of landlords that would take less rent than no rent to minimize their vacancy expense or a prolonged vacancy.

These are "Tenants at Will", which in MA refers to them as month to month and only require a 30 day written notice to vacate (and you do not have to give them a reason)Of course, things can get messy if they decide to pro-long things and I need to get the courts involved, etc.Also, if want to keep them, and say force them to remove the pets, I don't want that to give me any problems.

Tenants are no fools, a good amount of bad tenants know how to play the game and know how to pro long evictions.

Banks are sitting on unserviced liabilities, fees are amassing, the asset is deteriorating, the listing agent is doing work he won't be compensated for, etc.To restate the question: If there is an offer on a short-sale that is almost guaranteed to fail, does it typically prolong the foreclosure process?

Since you're going to work in a pretty demanding profession, you may have to work some prolong hours.

. $75/door is nice until the market turns against you or you have a prolonged vacancy/ need for rehab of the unit(s).