If you have multiple appraisers give you an appraisal on the same property, they can vary wildly in opinion of value based on the experience level of the appraiser, their knowledge of renovation costs and even their personal bias toward investing.  

(Wildly Important Goal) to be graduate debt free (Done!)

IN CA a RE broker can lend money so a little different there they are usually helping private folks state compliant. but when you go out of the west coast it gets pretty wild. and anyone soliciting you on BP  99% is a fraud.. same with Facebook.. lenders don't reach out to individual borrowers..  

In addition, the reporting standards vary wildly between agencies.I the future I plan on possibly creating a new scoring system that does factor crime, but only for large cities that have the data-sets available.

@Will Gaston That is wild, good luck liquidating.

I am also seeing that Commercial lending seems to wildly vary. 

Now they just have to disclose where the square footage came from i.e. county records, tax assessor, wild guess, etc. and the onus is on the buyer to verify.

It is also somewhat the 'wild west" around there with the locals, they do not like outsiders in there area.

@Sami Gren peoples class has nothing to do with their occupation or income level.My concern with a dancer is that there is no verifiable income and I would assume that her taxes would be wildly inaccurate

Real estate investing is a wonderful thing and a wild ride at times!