But knowledge of local conditions is a much better indicator than an appraisal, since appraisals are easily manipulated by simply choosing different comps.

Willie - If you're talking about posting fake ads in order to manipulate unsuspecting investors that you're lying to them, don't do it.

I know some may give flak jumping to the conspiracy theory tag lines, but there is just a hand full of individuals who control a vast swath of our economic flow, and things have moved in very odd ways, ways in which they could only move thru manipulation.

And for 10%, you'll get a professional who won't allow tenants to manipulate the situation and who can make sure your property is maintained.

Apparently not, but there is so much manipulation in the market now by the fed, who knows?

This is important because the depth of frost penetration may or may not be an item of concern when determining the repair type (depth of repair, etc).

Professional con artists are very good at what they do.Many left the residential arena now that it is highly regulated to play in the commercial arena.When that becomes hard to manipulate they will move on to something else.I wish we had a bad lenders website where these companies would be exposed."

It's basically manipulating an agency relationship, facilitating a sale or lease for a fee and in Mo. as well as other states can get you nailed if any part of your deal blows up.

So they try do go more in depth on their sites and on their materials and investors have access to all of that without ever talking to someone at the company.

I'm trying to learn how to fully analyze and manipulate variables to obtain an objective.