I wouldn’t trust your own comps for 100% accuracy as platforms like Zillow syndicate their data from our MLS and often are geographically off and use algorithms that don’t understand the block by block, apples to apples nature of comparisons. 

Many counties out here on the west are larger than the states of New England so its defiantly geographical issues.  

My best practice here was to call the agent beforehand to 1) give them heads up 2) give them a small explanation (so as to not reveal too much). 

PLEASE keep this in mind ALL you newbies out there... not because you get a system and the videos are quality, and there are 40000 hours of course material, and all the explanations are so clearly presented and bla bla bla, does it mean that WHAT THEY ARE TEACHING YOU IS CORRECT.In order for any mentor, or course to be good... several things need to come to play.The teaching procedure needs to be effective, sure, but if they teach you a strategy how to get motivated seller leads that doesn't work, it doesn't matter how effectively they teach how to drive for dollars, when driving for dollars don't get you reliable leads right?

@Russell BrazilOriginally the house failed for appraisal due to some things that needed to be fixed when I had my contractor come out they were more damage that needed to be taken care of in order for it to pass so they decided that they weren’t going to cover the damages for the property so I wrote a letter of explanation to the mortgage lender stating that they weren’t going to do that and they issued a denial letter.

See DM for my explanation :)

That is a quick and dirty explanation but the devil is in the details. that is whet this site is about the help you understand the details.

Hope that explanation is clear enough.

You May even need to go through a couple of real-estate agents part of finding a really good one to help you in a Given geographic market.

There were issues with a certain class of fittings prior to 2010, so this may be the explanation.