It has created an artificial market do to govenment intervention which is scary, as we all know what usually happens when the government intervenes in the real estate market.

These may be artificially low if the building had reduced occupancy during the prior year, so watch out for that.* Validate what the prop taxes will reset to based on your sales price.

I feel like there is a huge opportunity for borrowed money at the moment because of the historic and artificially low interest rates.

As you know, Real Estate is in an artificial recovery with Hedge Funds purchasing so much of the Trustee Sales without a second thought of price, which is driving the market & competition amongst investors!!

The prices are ridiculously inflated due to over regulation, frivolous lawsuits, artificial demand due to government handouts, etc, etc......Most people in America have been unknowingly trading pay increases in order to retain their beloved health benefits for the past couple decades.

Welcome Jesse, I don't know much about computers, I was born before 1969 when kids were born with a techno gene, but I know a little about RE, not sure what can be automated, but maybe you're the man that can invent the artificial intelligence software that can get that done.....someday

And you can always instruct your attorney to set a low initial bid, and if there is any third party bidding to try to bid the buyers up to some other higher number; it is an auction after all, and that is how auctions work (although the "house" is not supposed to artificially increase the bid in other auctions) - but if you don't get other buyers to out-bid you, you get the real estate.Originally posted by Sema Yavuz:...4) If no bid meets the reserve prize in multiple scheduled Sheriff sales, do I get the property back?...

I'm a radiologist, love what I do, and acquired a good bit of capital thus far--a lot of moonlighting while in training :).I've decided I shld get much deeper into real estate, and make medicine my secondary job.

The title should read artificial appreciation

This is a way to say the prices are artificially high.