But if your property has a high-end kitchen and the other one doesn't, an appraiser might add $10k back and value yours at $110k.You might try to get your hands on a few appraisals to learn how appraisers value a property and add/subtract value based on features, square footage, and fixtures/finish.While I'm sure this varies wildly, I've found that some realtors rely too heavily on automated comps or CMAs when valuing properties, and these can be off by a wide margin.

Some of us are heavily weighted in real estate, and we are extremely happy with owning this income-producing asset class.  

I am taking more of a "Lending Club" approach spreading the risk out over a lot of deals and like the comments in previous posts, I am depending heavily on the portals DD.

This became a popular theory here in Fl a few years ago, not surprisingly heavily promoted by foreclosure defense attorneys drumming up more clients.  

(With a full time job I'm going to be heavily reliant on a team of professionals to assist - Prop Mgr, Contractor etc)Thanks!

I invest heavily in the types of houses you are interested in.

I know for a fact that one of them started investing heavily while still active duty and has blown up since he retired ;) I say all of that to say this.

Commercial developers are investing in this area heavily.

@Darren Sager Knows NJ well@Jay Hinrichs I know invests heavily in Jacksonville and knows a lot about building ground teams which I assume is what you are referring to.Like Matt, I think William is good for KC

(Ken McElroy's next book "The Advanced Guide to Real Estate Investing" goes into it pretty heavily).