Talk to investors who have actually purchased property there, rather than brokers or amateur investors who are just dreaming about investing somewhere, someday.  

You are operating a business, emotions are for amateurs. 

@A.R Shakir Totally amateur speculation here so take it for what it's worth.That's $340/sq ft.

The system I use is the public media; TV, radio, direct mail, branding and using the right message.The best leads you can work on are those who call you directly to buy their property (houses, commercial or non-conforming)There are lots of motivated and distressed owners of real estate who prefer not listing their property with a real estate company for month only to find out that they are represented by amateurs in the business, they don't want to call on a bandit signs hanging on a public telephone pole to talk to a bottom feeding equity predator, they laugh their butts off reading "I want to buy your property, written child like on YELLOW PAPER.I have been doing well finding these folks (they finding me) with real desires, real financial issues, sincere sellers with problems.  

I would also point out how you were inconvenienced by the Landlord's decision to hire amateurs that took far to long to complete the job.

They buy deals out our reach of amateurs due to the lack for network/knowledge.

This inspector was some kind of amateur.

The market is littered with amateur agents, who do a hand full of deals every year and don't really know what they are doing.

Also I am an amateur photographer with pretty good equipment so I will be doing my own pictures.

But to ensure I wasn't valuing the property more than it was I ran my own (amateur) comps as a non-realtor, and had my realtor runs comps as well, and we were fairly close without collaborating, so I was pretty sure of the ARV.