Great question.I have been wildly successful using mailers to target properties for over a decade.

We're hoping that we can manage to get tenants to turn over in the summer, where we can spend a couple of weeks down in DC combining a little vacation in the place with fixing things up and finding a new tenant).Of course I made some mistakes already, too, but I think I'll get away with them this time...So after getting my feet wet, I've been reading about REI, and we do have cash / equity (our primary home is just about paid off) to stuff with, so now I'm considering to get into it in a non-accidental way, and it seems more prudent to look at our local area (NH seacost), but it turns out I have little idea about the purchase/rental market here, and it doesn't seem all that easy to find out (in NoVA, at least, there's a very active market, while here prices seem to fluctuate wildly for no obvious (to me) reason.

I have no idea what that house you mention would rent for but I'll take a wild *** guess and say something like $7,000 or $8,000...maybe $10,000? 

That's a wild case to read.

When I told him my much lower assessment of the property's value, he offered to find me a lender who would finance based on the wildly inflated sales price.

If our offer is wildly out of line, let’s briefly chat to make sure that our data is accurate and that we are not unknowingly overlooking anything beneficial to the property.”

I would shop arround, as the price varies wildly from company to company.  

The wild card there is access easement.

We are kind of in the wild west, we should be smart enough to know better.

That's wild.