@Karin DiMauroThere are some agents that deliberately UNDER price listings.

Before they moved in, they were told that someone broke into the apartment and deliberately flooded the toilets/sinks, etc. but were told all was fine.

Case in point: JPMorgan, which after firing 15,000 in its mortgage business, has just revealed it will fire thousands more.

An apartment complex can afford to take a risk with one questionable tenant; my husband and I own individual properties and can't deliberately take that risk.

Real estate investors have a bad enough reputation without people deliberately breaking the law. 

When they leave, by choice or by eviction, the houses usually need a few thousand dollars in rehab, even though the tenants may not have deliberately destroyed the property.

Anywho, all those questions being answered may get you closer to your ultimate conclusion, but the important thing is that your doing all this inventory and deliberation with your $ safe for now and waiting for the best scenario to present itself.

I am not a Rabbit in this race, and I have been classified as a Turtle in personality assessments, so I am happy with slow deliberate steps and a continued solid progress.

Or do you just clock the hours you spent working deliberately on a property and then divide your total profit in a given month or year by this amount for your "hourly wage" earned through operating the rental?

They could and have before determined it was a deliberate attempt to deceive due to contribution limits (putting in 100k instead if the max 5k).