I don't really have a good source of rental price or listing data other than maybe figuring out a Craigslist scrapping tool or the Zillow API (I think limited to 1,000 queries a day).  

I was rather amused that you wouldn't bother "talking to a prospect like" me in your insurance business but you'll take your personal time on a Sunday night to write an article objecting to my query with nothing relevant to the risk scenario, interesting.

I will take the "very"s away from "very very Bad", to just read: numbers too thin = Bad idea.The main reason I query the positive cash flow, is the assumption of readily being able to get a 30yr mortgage at 4.5% for an investment property, at just 20% down.

I would suggest that you contact the county tax office and query to them your question.

A great PPC manager can cut through the low performing query modifiers and dial into the right type of lead based on your criteria.

Sure does seem with the country getting more and more crowded, a large portion of basements rented out as residences continue to not have a C of O (as a separate dwelling unit), What I've usually seen is owners rent their basement (if no C of O as separate dwelling) for storage or the like, cause eventually a residential tenant who defaults will find out (as easily as googling) that the space they were renting as an 'APARTMENT' wasn't even a residential dwelling to begin with then query it with the department of building which inspects for code violations / unpermitted additions etc.Luckily even if someone rented their basement without it having a C of O as a separate dwelling/apartment, a holdover can be evicted just the same except the established norm seems to be 'evict me and i'll report u' thus its important to be sure the unit is legal to avoid the code-violations-cited eviction aftermath.

It's an era of the 24 hour a day consumer; if nothing else, realtors need to be prepared to field queries at the times when potential clients are making them.

Good luck getting to the bottom of query! 

In order to get more benefits from other BP members, post your query in such a way that others see your point clearly and your objective.I'm happy to respond to the abandoned house query when re-posted.

But get the HELOC in place first.One problem with the credit cards (and unsecured revolving debt) is that drawing down on them in large amounts can really whack your credit score, and if you had a HELOC, a bank might suspend or reduce the HELOC's line (their computers re-query your credit score almost in real time these days).