. :)  but its like any paid training the reality of deal flow is greatly glossed over.

.: @Michael PlaksI’m not sure if you’re just trying to be controversial, As an attorney, you are trained to read the entire text.

You'll make a lot of mistakes which will train you what to look for in a PM. 

You could have stopped this train wreck before it ever left the station.

@Matt Powers  Have you done any training, schooling in real estate investing? 

(I literally made my money back for the training on subsequent real estate deals.)  

These are professionals with additional training and a stricter code of ethics.

I disagree--there are more tough times ahead, but as stated above there is light at the end of the tunnel and this time it's not a train. 

That's a TON of what our training modules are all about.

The sales comparison approach is typically done for residential real estate and will be less appropriate and come in under value because there are no good comps, and even an appraisal using the income approach (unless the appraiser is trained to do more complex commercial appraisals) is probably not going to be the most accurate either because they typically use market cap rates and in this case you don’t have good comparable income properties to find the market cap for the analysis.