you know, Jaren Barnes who now works for my company actually wrote a blog post a while back (before he worked with me) on exactly how to automate Craigslist leads: https://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2014/04/2...Just skip down to #5 on the post. 

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".

Is it typical in the area to have that large of a barn with that little acreage?

I just saw an 1846 built victorian that was "codexed" into two separate units, on a 12,000 sqft lot which used to have a barn structure, and the agent suggested the best value for the property is a flip with the addition of resurrecting that structure (with approvals - this is a historic district) and turn it into two more condos in the back of the lot.

There has also been an addition of a pool and a finished barn.