For instance, if you paid all cash for an apartment building and you received a 7 cap, but you could buy an industrial building all cash and receive an 8 cap, then you would in theory rather purchase the industrial building.

@Jon Klaus  Jon as we know this is all regional I am always amazed at how cost effective your builds are in Texas I have a 2.2 mil spec going in Charleston 2600 sq ftt and that's going to come out at 300 a foot. not including the lot of course.. which was 570k. in this instance no pilings but we did elevator 20k .. what does it in the historic district of Charleston is all the custom items you have to buy siding roof windows architecture 60k in hard scape landsape on a 4k sq ft lot.. that type of thing. when we are out of the BAR heavy duty areas we are building at 100 a foot or so.. 

For instance, if it was bought in 2010 for $100k, but the area has seen a 30% increase in property values, then the equity in the list vendor's system will be too low.

Hello I was curious, when buying a home via court house steps, what are some strategies to capitalize on the equity.For instance, there is a home being sold for 100k but the ARV is 274k. 

In one case for instance the assessor's office calcuated the square footage of a duplex I purchase and when I did a phyical measurement and calculation I came up with a slightly lower number.

There are markets with higher ratios, like Baltimore for instance, which is indicative of a high risk asset. 

Remediation is typically "encapsulation"...sealing, siding, painting over...but in some instances is needs scraped...that's a nightmare. 

If your base skill-set is more of a general business, then you may want to 'lean' in to something a little differently - for instance, I know plenty of people on these forums do well doing high volume, perhaps wholesaling, etc.For me, I just personally find the 'building' and solving problems a lot more interesting/rewarding.Of course, there's always doing something completely different, as well. 

Unfortunately I cant spread that on BP. )But that's just one instance, I know I might of teased you a little but that wasn't the real issue.

For instance when we opened up the RE/MAX branch we had to fill out forms allowing the IDX feed to go out to our own site and give permission for them to send the feed to "all partner sites" which we did.