But if you are trying to compare this with buying an investment property in your own name using 20% down conventional financing you are comparing apples and oranges.

Selling Agent Commission:  Commissions are negotiable, however I would not be "selling" on a double close, so no agent's commission.School District: This district have three great magnet schools for: Fine Arts (100% graduation/scholarship rate; Elite Academics (IB/AP programs); and World Languages that do not require students to live in any particular boundary within the county.  

I had hoped that since the mold was so bad, and the house was so strangely unique for this area without having apples to apples as comparables to ever be a good candidate for a flip, that even at $200K it would send any and all investors running, I guess I was wrong.

They NYTimes has a very good rent v buy calculator:http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy...One major flaw when analyzing rent v buy is you need to compare apples to apples.

There are rotten apples everywhere, hence the need for due diligence.

@Joseph S. actually meant to say Apple Blossom, not Flowering Peach.  

I also paid for an app: DealCheck from the Apple Store!

A:  Yes...and again, you don't know what they are.5) The analysis is based on Zillow recently sold searches for 2/1 and evaluation of county auditor sales in past 5 years of 2/1's in the neighborhood.A:  Much better, but I hope you didn't use the Zestimate...and I also hope your criteria for sold comps "in the neighborhood" only included properties within 1 mile, in the same city, that are within 10% in sq ftg of the property being analyzed...or it's not "apples to apples".

HE did early retirement from Apple and now is traveling, mostly in SE Asia.I think the generic term turnkey investing is a function of what did you get into the property for? 

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