_____(Quantity)__ squares @ $_________/square = Total Cost $_________________.If there is huge discrepancy between bidders on Quantities or $/quantity, find out why.

Economics will be fair when human evolution becomes fair. lastly, the people who are really concerned with this detail of financial efficiency usually buy houses OR don't sweat such insignificant small discrepancies such as the 7 months that have an extra day. 

Joel-If you're in CA, hard money rates (at least the companies I deal with) are more like 1-2 pts origination (regardless of loan amount) and 9-10% I/O, 12-24 month term, up to 60% LTV (of purcahse, not ARV)Don't know why there is such a discrepancy, but I certainly find it interesting.

The only metric to evaluate a property value is actual sold comps with necessary adjustments for discrepancies between the subject property and the comp.

If there are discrepancies between two sources data, the county recorders office documents are what you want to go by

One of the reasons behind the large discrepancy is due to the deductions that the taxman makes when he's providing his assessment.

This really wouldn't apply to REO's but if you ever see a discrepancy with a regular sellers tax record for sq ft you can do this.When viewing the property say " This basement really looks amazing did you do this yourself??

Not only for OPEN accounts, dispute other discrepancies if you think they are GENUINELY not your fault or late payment, etc.

. ;-) Pretty surprising to find three examples in one list of comps, but note that there are two likely possibilities behind the discrepancies - a) that those comps with higher values in the MLS have un-permitted work, or b) the local assessor is doing a lousy job of updating the assessment rolls based on permitted work.

Seems like a huge discrepancy.