5) The analysis is based on Zillow recently sold searches for 2/1 and evaluation of county auditor sales in past 5 years of 2/1's in the neighborhood.

I am evaluating if it would make sense for me to move my 401k into a self directed IRA and use it to invest in a turn key property.

I'm just asking because I think you can only evaluate deals in relation to your own criteria, which come from your goals!

With all that said, I'd say evaluate what you have

It probably covers 15-20 quick comp evaluations, and I simply don't make blind ridiculously low offers, the exceptions being HUD, or FHA which just get thrown into a computer in 5 minutes and no real agent is on the other side, which would damage my reputation with other agents.

Duplex to quad are mostly purchased by investors.I am evaluating 2 properties (both duplexes) in my area of expertise and therefore today pulled comps (cannot get much more current than that). 

How can I effectively pull comps to evaluate whether or not this would be a good deal and determine ARV (as most times, you need this to make the MAO)? 

I was wondering when pulling comps, could I use both a brick home and a wood home as comps? I mean they both have the same or similar amount of bedrooms, bathrooms, age, sq ft, under a mile radius, etc. The only major...

Why are you lumping your properties to evaluate?

We treat it as a business , have a written agreement and having monthly meetings. ( we also have a 2 yr agreement on partnership - at that point we will re-evaluate)We are trying to model some of the success stories out there in partnership.Thank you very much for your advise