You either take their advice, adjust your plan, and take action; or you could figure this out on your own by crunching the number a few hundred times and spend the next couple of years waiting for a unicorn or a radical change in the market (which does happen from time to time).

I love all of the deal analysis posts (especially Jon's posts with lightning fast number crunching responses!!!).

Lastly, really only the attorney will probably give  you useful info on purchasing foreclosures.While I'm not trying to downplay the role of the accountant, but that function is just to crunch the numbers to file your taxes... 

Crunch those numbers it’s doable.

You'll probably want to have some level of reserves so that you don't wind up in a crunch for a major expense where more money needs to be added and you don't have it to add..

The way I had understood it was that they were simply running into the same supply chain crunch for the materials and renovations of these houses that the entire industry is feeling right now.

To echo what has been said, it still has to be a financial benefit and crunching the numbers to make sense. 

It seems the credit crunch will show up in the commercial market far before residential. 

It's completely fine if those aren't recommended as well, I just need a quick way to for my partner and I to have access to the property data without crunching tons of numbers.Thank you for your time and help,Andrew

I have been working with a lender and an agent looking for properties and I have learned how to crunch the numbers to see if a home would be a good purchase or not in the long run.