I don't believe that the new guy trying to get a SFR under contract and sell the contract to a wholesale buyer for $2000, and Donald Trump being labeled both as "real estate investors" provides anything meaningful for this term."

That is the only way to ensure a meaningful appraisal can be done.

@Bradley Morrill another way to get a tax delinquent list is if the information is available on the county website you could hire a virtual assistant to extract the data and put it in to a spreadsheet for you.  

The number is to easily manipulated and is not meaningful.  

Again, this is a very niche field and many tax professionals just don't know much about it or deal with it regularly enough to develop streamlined systems and meaningful expertise.There are several such providers here on BP.  

If I could extract one learning from this exercise—and one message to share—it's that crunching the numbers not just on a property you’re analyzing but on your portfolio as a whole, looking at it over a time frame that’s relevant to you, and in context of your non-monetary goals is crucial.

Need more detail regarding expenses and financing to give a meaningful answer.

The total amount owed to the tax man was half of that, only for one year, taxes are high on commercial properties, yes there is more to the story, but the main points are those, the property place on collateral is another one, the reason for not going to the bank is not because bad relation, quite the opposite, the problem is the credit limit of this person is maxed out, Canada is a lot more extract in credit lending and rating than the USA.    

My current plan is to extract down payment money from my 401k.

OK, that said, you have a renovation company and are potentially extracting some profit from the deal via your company's profit margin.