3 year olds unsupervised... instantly my property is worth probably $20k less if I were to list and they show it during the day and the kids are running wild outside.

When the motivated seller is asking too much I negotiate the price down to a fair price and everyone's happy.Find yourself a great investor/agent or investor-friendly agent with negotiation skills.Plus, you have more protection as a buyer when you buy from the heavily regulated Multiple Listing Service than you do from the "wild wild west" of wholesaling!!

@Sadrud-Din Williams,"WAG" = Wild-*** Guess ...

I'm working through analyzing bigger deals and came across this one:https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/Hopkins-SC/16714295/To note, all but one of the homes appear to be owned by the lot so maintenance/repairs could vary wildly year to year and would require quite a bit of work.

So, I can renovate any property in the US to move in condition by doing a cosmetic upgrade for $XX depending on the size of the property.This is just step one to get to an offer stage...you'll need to bust *** in due diligence to confirm your assumptions...a great agent can be your best asset here...or your contractor network.Unfortunately, the real solution is a wildly complex algorithm that will only get you marginally better results...remember, acquire properties by going through phases...phase 1 is getting comfortable with an offer based on what you know after the first filter...entering due diligence is where the real work starts. 

However, its edges are especially prone to wild price swings--and you don't want to be left holding the bag.

Husband calls me later that night saying he spoke to the contractor and wanted to know what we were going to do about the mushrooms the contractor found under the subfloor. 

And as I said guys, even at 90 or 87 of list it is wildly overpriced.

So my pie in the sky scenario is to be be able to go wild with investments one day.

They can still vary wildly but this is what's most common.