I recommend listening to noteMBA or take a guru course with Scott Carson, Eddie speed or others who are experts at notes 

The banks are up to speed on handling them and don't give them away without the mls.

Here's what is says about Home Prices:Home values appreciated in 49 states and the District of Columbia over the year between the second quarter of 2015 and the second quarter of 2016, according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s purchase-only, seasonally adjusted index.

You need to do a title search to determine IF there will be a remaining lien attached to the property if you buy, AND to determine how much that lien will be to cure, so that you can ADJUST YOUR OFFER PRICE ACCORDINGLY.

Quotes came in at 100k so I adjusted my offer to 240k where seller finances 210k of the deal. 

However, once we get to 5-7 properties, they should be able to pay themselves off every 3 years or so which should speed up the buying process.As far as lawyers go, I just closed on my current house with Ward & Taylor. 

I told the Adjuster that it doesn't make sense why they wouldn't cover me for damages.

Look at what you did wrong/other people did right, make adjustments and have more reps!

Just get the folks who finance these rolling and ask for an adjustment for the already wasted cash.

Hey Simon,I'm building a tool that does pretty much what you describe, to automate what I'm doing in spredsheets.http://www.reikit.com/compsIt uses zillow/google maps data for lookups, but I use it with my own comps that I got from my realtor, then I run my own adjustments to get an accurate ARV.It's still early days, but check it out and let me know what you think.