After reading through the forum I concluded the same, the other buyers offer for $625,000 was as high as someone should bid but it was rejected.

We have largely concluded we are just not cut out for RE but I'm hoping some of you can point me to another strategy.

I would not necessarily conclude they are hiding anything but I personally would have walked away by now.

Based on this, the 344/ day figure came in on the low end, and I concluded I didn't need plumbers checking leaks after all.So my suggestion is for you to check the number of people actually living in the property, including unauthorized tenants, and the average daily water usage.

Our immersion in the details of crises that have arisen over the past eight centuries and in data on them has led us to conclude that the most commonly repeated and most expensive investment advice ever given in the boom just before a financial crisis stems from the perception that 'this time is different.'

I should have mentioned the tax benefits of seller financing but I am not sure if that alone would have won him over.Thus far, I have concluded that seller financing for newbies might be a good starting point to get our feet wet especially in my position.

This does not necessarily mean the future will match the historical performance but I do not know of anything that would lead me to conclude that it is unlikely.  

I've researched the various protest methods and concluded there's a signficant gap between what the county valued my property at and what I valued it at using the income method. 

They find a total average return of 9% for the period they looked at (1986 to 2014), and conclude:"Each component contributes approximately equally to the aggregate U.S. portfolio of housing returns, so excluding one component excludes half of total returns on average," There is also a helpful graph comparing the breakdown between the two factors in the 30 largest metro areas. 

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