It was neglected and needed a lot of work, so I offered what I thought was fair, and had my numbers to back up my justification. 

Then I looked at the numbers he valued our property at, and he used substantially lower values for each of these figures, while giving no justification for why he chose those lower numbers. 

What would be the justification for that?  

Offer Price and Justification: I have arrived at an offer price of $245K based on the following factors: ARV: 310k once stabilized from the comps.

For that reason, my offer is $___" It might not make them come down to your price, but they usually appreciate knowing that you're not just trying to low ball for the sake of low balling, but there's a justification behind your offer.

Just if I could do it over- I would make sure my wife and my personal finances were in order first .

Could the location of the asset be a justification?

They *can* go outside of the standard 1 mile radius, but they simply have to have a good justification.

As no onsite inspections were being done, there was no justification for the higher cost of the permit.It would not surprise me (not a lawyer) that in combination with the warrant-less search issue if there were further challenges to unit inspections / rental permits so that inspections become limited to exterior of properties or at most the publicly accessible spaces to get a rental permit.Oren

In one property I got fined because the carbon monoxide detector was 8 inches too far from bedroom #2, I've been fined because the location of the fire extinguisher under the kitchen sink wasn't marked to say where it was.There is no way to get out of these fines, they do allow you to request a reduction in the fine after mitigation of the issue, and a reasonable justification as to why you had the violation.