We've hired an engineer a few years ago to value various components in our buildings to speed up depreciation. 

The amount of work you put in is directly correlated to the speed and quality of your results!

They were on the same block, not 5.5 miles away.I ran into this issue in Texas on all the flips I did there .. the appraisers were not up to speed with the market.. and at that price point almost all the buyers are FHA ..

Auctions on the other hand can be higher risk but the speed and certainty are nice. 

Take pictures and show to Magistrate and maybe they can try and speed things up.

One legal bill, one speeding ticket, one car wreck or car repair, one unexpected high utility bill, birthdays, holidays, forced time-off from work, etc., etc., etc... 

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one thing I like about this it keeps me up to speed on the REAL laws not the hearsay you get on line ..  

A wholesaling list seems to be a great way to speed this up. 

@Gabriel LambEasy... read the news.Google "(City State) Economy/population growth/real estate/ etc." and read the first couple pages of news articles.Within no time you'll be way up to speed on what's going on.