welcome to BP.Check out SLREIA Salt Lake Real Estate Investors Association.

Ask for references and follow up with those references (Take what they're saying with a grain of salt, they won't likely give you a reference unless they know it will be a positive one).

They can estimate what THEY would do to the house or pay for a particular repair, but that doesn't mean it'll be the same as what YOU would do to the house or pay for it.Overall, I'd say take whatever a wholesaler tells you with grain of salt, but come up with your own numbers.

@Jean G....You can take what I post with a grain of salt, but I'd never work with FMC. 

That investment company likely bought it for about $7k, and put maybe 3k cosmetics into it eg:-http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1047-E-68th-St-C...They are right to suggest not pinning your hopes on appreciation (because they already want to get it from you NOW), and their projected rental returns should be taken with a big grain of salt too.

I am looking at a buy & hold duplex turn-key deal in the Salt Lake City Utah area (trying to put as many trigger words as I can in there ;-).

Equity Real Estate - Premier Elite Branch.He happens to be the President of the Salt Lake Real Estate Investors Association.Heart of a teacher.Trevor

@Victor Warnsley,    I am certainly no expert at buying vacation properties so please take what I have to say with a grain of salt.   

I dont mean that in a bad way, just take everyone's advice with a grain of salt (i guess i said that right) including mine.1.

Take my answer with a deep spoon of salt.