On the course of my travels around the country with work, I see numerous examples of properties which scream potential to me.  

Screaming deal right?

So in my opinion "As-is" is the seller screaming please come low ball me because I know it may need some work and I'm not willing to do any.

Ask them if they've ever been thrown out of a meeting venue for having loud altercations (true story, they were banned from the library for fighting and screaming).

It's still way too high and I would be a little careful for sure and make sure I did my homework, but it doesn't initially (without more details) scream scam to me.

Comps between 210 and 370K.Used the flip calculator with conservative numbers and this deal is screaming $$$$ at me.

I only seriously started investing in liens in 2015 after I learned as much as I could then developed my own strategy which gets me screamed at on BP when I tell it.

This company, Platinum Properties, just screams like a rip-off praying tenants involved (and maybe all other parties who knows, I don't want to stick around to find out), and while the current management company we are moving away from, due to them and/or the landlord not repairing the water damage and the mold that followed from the basement flood after the sump-pump failed, maybe insidious by letting their rentals go to cr*p so they can rip-off the landlord by gaining a sales commission here in the DMV area by convincing the landlord to sell after letting their rental get neglected with no repairs (I have seen other rentals from this management company and seen what they sell too lol, they use nieve landlords to get off-market sales), these people on the other hand at Platinum Properties appear to be so sloppy it makes me wonder if they are unprofessional criminals masquerading as a management company (the Realtor who showed us the house was very nervous and desperate to "sell us" on that lease, my fiancé seemed oblivious to this due to his inner mind workings, and that realtor even said stuff like "never give cash to maintenance" and that the repair people "are known to ask for that extra money from tenants in cash" even when there is no charges to the tenants).

My gut was screaming that she will not be good tenant. 

Even if you're pretty sure a house isn't worth submitting an offer on, the more practice you have the quicker you'll get and the easier it will be to spot a screaming deal when you see it.