Have some meaningful, pertinent questions, and then decide if you want to work with them.

For instance, is it meaningful to compare a cap rate on a 100k RE investment with a return on a 100k mutual funds investment?

@Ron SteeleIt is difficult to give you any meaningful advice since you really didn't share any meaningful details about the structure under which you and the attorney entered into.

Calculating the free cash idea, which you called cash on cash becomes less meaningful and can be misleading idea.

Don't forget to set up some meaningful reward at the end for accomplishing that goal!

I've helped a couple of people contest assessed values and didn't make the connection with the Board of Equalization and equalized value.I love the idea of data crunching on large swaths of information and your use of mortgages (I assume you have an appraised value at the origination date) and HPI are also compelling.Although I haven't played around with it much, because our market is small and pretty homogeneous, I bet I could get just as meaningful information using age and square footage (also available on our tax rolls).

They provide a system for extracting ownership data and addresses.

A referral from a trusted source is much more meaningful.

Our PM sent a water damage company onsite to extract the standing water on emergency.Later the company called and asked me to sign a contract so they could proceed with some testings, and negotiate with my insurance company.

It ranges from you can have them out in a week without needing a lawyer to even with a lawyer, you may never get them out.Without knowing your location it is impossible to give you any meaningful advice.