And you have an "asset" in the hood, you can safely assume the appraiser will not pick the 5 best comps.

If you can pick up houses for cash, fix them for cash and hold them mortgage free then you do not need too many to get to 20k/month cash flow.

I hear things are slowly picking back up.

Next is Recovery, where construction starts to pick-up slowly and vacancy begins to decline.

That's way to random trying to pick up buyers and I don't like letting a bunch of random unqualified people in your home and wasting my time and potentially exposing you to more risk. 

So even if you pick a state with stronger protections like WY or NV, the cause of action arose in the state where the tenant fell, so likely that the court where the accident happened would have jurisdiction.

I picked the property up for $150k less than appraised value, but it still wouldn't cash flow with only 20% down so went ahean and put 50% down so that it would cash flow.

Pick up the phone, dial the number, ask them what you need to know. 

Select a coach that has the specific skillset you want and then pick their brain.

If you picked me up and put me in another location and I wanted to find a deal, that is what I would do first.