If you are uncertain, look carefully at the community where you want to work, and consider its growth prospects and demographics, how well educated and employable the population is and how well houses are selling.

Yesterday there was a post with a title like "From 0 to $1M dollars" and its not unusual to look there and see at two of the five trending topics dealing with how someone make a lot of money, flipped a house for $50k, or had some massive success.

This cash-in structure is actually a great deal for developers: Instead of going through a lengthy, costly and uncertain zoning variance process, the upzoning is both immediate and certain.

@Jay Hinrichs I agree, it would be unusual circumstances for a landlord to lose $100k in a law suit to a tenant in Arizona.

It's when you get into a situation where the property you're trying to value is a little unusual whether it's the house itself, the location, if it's in a remote location with there are few sales annually, etc.When valuing a home that you have an interest in, it's important not to be emotional, and to be realistic about your property, or about an investment you're going to make.Lastly, what I tell agents who ask me for advice in either pricing a property to put on the market, or to assess the property that has been sitting on the market for too long, is to look for properties that tell you what you are property is NOT worth.

I should also mention that we are currently living in California, but we do not own a home and I’m very uncertain if we will stay here.

Not sure about using those during the uncertain times like now though since I’m not sure how often they refresh their data.

Welcome to the trenches Tom, that's rather a rather unusual priority but looks like the lender was asleep anyway, I'd love to see it go down like that.....I doubt NC is as liberal and protective of as Ma.

Maybe that’s doable but is actually unusual. 

The idea of house hacking in this uncertain economic environment would certainly be attractive to me!