For comps you need to weigh a few things, is the area increasing or decreasing in value?

I plan to sell my current home (with about $30k in equity) to pay down the mortgage and thus increase my monthly cash flow and decrease my debit to income ratio which will come handy for future deals.However, my true question is in the subject of this post, I have submitted a few HUD offers for Owner-Occupied properties at 30% below the listing price and HUD has counter offer at 10% below the listing price.

And your UBIT decreases over time.

While the DM is a strategy, hitting absentee owners is costing greater amounts of capital to deploy and the ROI has decreased quite a bit.

Parts of Denver metro where hit hard other parts of Denver saw a decrease in the increase.

Then in December inventory decreased slightly for the first time in 7 months.

Would have decrease my personal mortgage debit by $63,0006.

Consider utilizing a corporation and a 401k for matching contributions to decrease some of that taxable income.

We put an ad on Craigslist and had a Swedish foreign exchange student join us, and he actually paid $50 more a month because he wanted to guarantee he'd be chosen, decreasing each of our rent by $25/month.

It depends on rural, suburban, or urban core areas how far you go out in evaluation ring of an area.What I look at is violent to non-violent crimes in the area and if the frequency is flat, decreasing, increasing and by what pace.There will always be crime especially tied to population levels.