This would allow the owner-financer to settle into their new home, according to the seller.5) Most important: I had a real estate attorney, and a good friend of mine, who is a real estate agent, review the contract--both advised me not to proceed.In conclusion, this sounded like a very risky deal from the beginning, however, I trusted my friend's judgment and gave him the benefit of the doubt, but it was to no avail as this just sounded too good to be true, and it was.Better safe than sorry in my opinion.

Perhaps others have had better luck but the conclusion I am coming to is you have to get creative in the Buffalo market, whether that is venturing out into the lower rent or less desirable areas or by doing a BRRRR type of strategy.

I came to the conclusion that it had to be a scam, but I never contacted a realtor or drove up to see it.  

I wouldn't jump to any major conclusions about it and they probably should have asked for it a while ago.

How did you come to that conclusion?

30318 is the perfect example of why you can't draw conclusions by zip code in Atlanta.So this house is in 30318 and is arguably in the best elementary school district in Atlanta (Morris Brandon).  

Adding all things up, I ROUTINELY get to the conclusion that the listing is really worth about half of the asking price...Now I have to imagine that this is how MF selling/buying always is....So my question is, is it common practice to offer half ish of the asking price? 

Yet while it is very subjective, you all sort of arrive at pretty similar conclusions of what an A, B, C, D is even within that subjectivity, and it is hard to pin down exactly how we do that.

I came to this choice after trying out the typical W2/9a-5p job and coming to the conclusion that it wasn't for me.

When you run your calculations on what your net profit will be after selling, you make the judgment call; that as the deal sits you make let's say $36,000 net profit and would be happy making $28,000 and therefore raise your offer incrementally.When I first started out flipping, I came to the same conclusions as you and went against the grain.