A reasonable repair estimate should steer your offer price.

While most everyone doesn't mind sharing info, I think you have to be mindful that there may be some folk out there who might steer you wrong because they don't want you competing with them for deals.  

Anything below that and Realtors will probably steer away their buyers from your home (even though that's against ethics, it does happen)If you decide not to offer commission to the buyer's agent, you'll severely limit your amount of potential buyers. 

Older homes are great so don't steer away just do some more research and do due diligence

Trying to find deal by category of a strategy will only steer you down the path of that strategy and a really great deal could be across the street!

I wanted to steer the thread towards solutions not toward a debate on the signs. 

Anyone can sell you  a property.. but remember those that sell it to you get paid that day then its up to you and YOUR PM... so between choosing the right turnkey company and in turn the best PM those will be critical to your success. also I always recommend you steer clear of the very low value assets or as others have mentioned the headache properties.

To be clear, this is a refi out of FHA on my personal residence, I'm asking for the great BP Knowledge Cloud to make it rain because my normal, ehem "strategy", of asking Google was surprisingly barren of information.I would appreciate any information from those who have done similar, or maybe some guidance to steer me in the right direction for an answer, thank you all for your time!!

I steer away from flat top stoves, I have 38 units in the FDL area.

This makes me want to steer clear of North Carolina.