When analyzing potential deals, the very first question I have is “what are the rents”? However listing agents only rarely include this info in the listing (different regions have different standards, from what I’ve ...

Any idea why there is such a discrepancy in price?

The price discrepancy from the nicest house on the block to the crappiest house on the block are pretty low.

This means there is a sizable discrepancy between the price of a retail house and a foreclosure or house that needs work.

Any discrepancies that pop out at this point will require extra scrutiny.

@Paul Feijoo The reason for the big discrepancy is that the math in the “example story” is wrong.It goes wrong in the third paragraph where it says “They end up paying their mortgage for 3 months before selling the home, which amounts to $40,800 (8 percent of $170,000 = $13,600 x 3 months).”Whoever wrote this story incorrectly calculated the interest for 3 months as $40,800.

Likely the IRS is not processing your return because there is a matching issue or other discrepancy. 

What is the discrepancy in these two numbers?

I have one contractor that I am interviewing today but I'd like to have at least two others that I can interview and get quotes from just to see if there are any discrepancies.

Since you have a few months until you are out, I would spend this time to really focus on saving cash and build your credit if you have any discrepancies.