One of the big stumbling blocks I see with flippers is - they don’t evaluate well and purchase at too high a price.

I have an hour each morning blocked out to run comps for investors.

It’s not going to be perfect, and would just go off general averages, however, ai highly doubt those averages are refined enough to get down to niches, such as a home on the lake vs a home four or five blocks away will likely have vastly differeing occupancy rates.I use its general averages as an indicator of whether or not I want to even bother with an area, if I decide to I then go in and find direct comparable homes and gather data from those ones specifically to create a much more accurate projection. 

Two weeks after graduating I was in escrow on a 5,000 sf. piece of dirt a block from the beach where I designed and built three prefabricated homes.

An apartment is ONE block of units. 

(using HR Block software)I now owe 8K....software shows i must pay..Can anyone recommend what else i can use to get more deductions? 

The first thing we did yesterday was cut down 7 foot shrubs that were blocking the view of the front of the house and clean up the leaves in the yard.

I've had a couple of claims, one on a rental and hail on my primary residence roof, and no complaints.I won't name any of the companies I left, but in one case they had a house in the city with a fire hydrant in the front yard, 5 blocks from the fire station, rated as high fire risk rural. 

I just used Ed Martinez with All State for two rent houses on blocks.

At high noon on a weekday there are three or more charcoal grills smoking in the front yards of any given block.Two or more cars up on cinder blocks on any given block.Pit bulls in yard with low fences bearing "Trespassers Will Be Eaten" signs.Watch for the crazy cat lady's house.