Greetings from Arizona.I am an agent in the greater Phoenix area, servicing the majority of the valley including Tempe, Scottsdale, Paradise Valley, Mesa, Chandler, Gilbert, Glendale, etc.

The windows, roof, electricals, plumbing systems, and gas lines all need major upgrade to bring the property up to date. 

The other benefit to new construction is that you shouldn't have any major expenses for several years. 

Also zoning, exit strategies, and market value rentals are helpful in knowing since a major part of making sense of the numbers is bringing all the units up to market value rental income.

For the bankruptcy properties, we contacted the trustee phone numbers on the website, however, they usually just replied to ask us to look for debtor's attorney.For short-sales, we searched the listing on zillow.com, but majority of them are off market.We used BP recommended realtor and asked if they can help with the properties we targeted, the realtor searched for a week of the foreclosure ones and get back to me that she believes she will not be the right partner.

Rent growth did help with deals continuing to meet the 1% rule though.Similar to your deal that was just shy of a 1% rule when you bought it, it sounds like you have had many major updates to do to each unit as tenants have moved out to get them to market rents.

It's important to me to act ethically, and it seems like one of the major goals of this site is to foster a community of investors that reflects well on real estate investment as a whole.

Over the past three years, I’ve been using most of the major off-market techniques.One standout method has always been pulling data and feeding it into a call center to generate off-market leads.

Got turned into the AG and one group got nailed criminally I also had FBI in my office about another investor who did this as a financial predator he got prison.So in my mind this is going to  play out again with Sub to being taught to the masses and people being people vast majority are honest of course but there will be predators mark my words on that.

the majority of the successful urgent cares in the county are in close proximity to grocery anchored retail centers.