Hi all, I am looking at Ogden and wondering whether any local investors can shed some perspective on overall property values to rents in this market.

Wondering if some community wide knowledge could shed light on potential solutions. 

I know a vacancy is tough and it can be hard to find tenants in the winter, but you have to weight the costs and benefits and decide.If it's harder to find renters in the winter, try offering a month-to-month lease just to get through the winter, then move back to a one-year lease in the spring.

Make sure you cover the roof, windows, sheds, landscaping-everything.

Business credit is largely irrelevant until you get into the true CRE and commercial lending space, and even then, the key principles are weighted heavily.

Hoping someone with more intimate knowledge of the neighborhoods can help shed light?

Does anyone have experience in this process that they can shed some light on how to go about this.

This might lighten the weight of the tree toward your property;  so this might help or not. 

EDIT - 700lb weight limit.

Seller seems to think the vacant pads are worth very little, and of the 1.2M paid, most of that goes towards the income producing pads (with homes on them)...because the "CAP rate could not apply to vacant lots".Does anyone with appraisal experience can shed some light on this?