My go to is craigslist.org, I search weekly to see what  places are going for, similar to my unit and how long it stays on the market.Are your units in different areas or all in the same building?

They have no written leases, they are all oral and the owner still doesn't have a report on who paid rent this month.  

With a buy, hold, and refinance you can take advantage of many of the long term tax benefits I stated above, but get a large amount (or all) of your capital back out of the project (tax free) at the time of the refinance.

Owners Title              $850.00 **** (see below)Recording Fee                  $60.00                                                  $3,087.50You will also have 1.25% in points.  1.00% because this is a duplex and 0.25% because of credit score/LTV (Loan To Value = loan amount vs purchase price)The way this works is you take your loan amount x points and that equals a dollar amount, this then get’s added on top of your closing costs and you keep the low rate you lock in at.  212,500 x 1.25% = $2,656.25If you don’t want/cannot pay that fee, you can roll some or all of it into the rate. 

Now its back.So, I'm not sure I fully agree with John or all cash in this case.

Fill in the gaps" Are you referring to where the pieces of paneling meet or all the gaps or indentations that run up and down the paneling?

I'd try to do these tasks in this order:-paint interior-any other interior work-rip out old carpet-refinish hard wood-put down new carpetBut, the carpet contractor may both remove the old carpet and install the new all at once.If there's any baseboard trim, be sure to do that all before or all after the carpet is installed (ask how I know.)AC should be installed after any dusty work to avoid sucking dust into the new unit.Four weeks will be a challenge.

If any of you ever want to meet up over coffee, or all of us raid a Starbucks together, we could form an LA out-of-state investing meetup of our own, BP-style!

The lines that run through those building are they in good shape or full of collars and do the boilers look rusty or seem inadequate when running hot water in a pipe in the farthest away part of the apt building from boiler room.

The lower the better like Brian T. said.I saw a formula on here somewhere that said a good idea for your assignment fee is 10% of the buyer's profit assuming the buyer makes 20% profit off of your ARV, but I cannot say whether or not this applies to any or all buyers and I would think the assignment fee would be totally up to you.