County officials either do an appraisal in the office or by driving properties and can be based on numerous things such as an increase in average sales price of houses in the county/area. 

I may not have survived the numerous swings we've encountered over that time period and I definitely wouldn't have been able to profit from them.

I have read numerous posts on this site and they have been WONDERFUL!!...

Oh yes we have done exactly what you are describing numerous times.

I am not attempting to create any gimmicks or tricks but want to do it quickly with limited disturbance to the tenant or my schedule with having to do numerous showings.

Dodd Frank only applies to notes originated AFTER that date is inaccurate because it fails to take into account there were numerous laws regulating finance behavior prior to that date including the SAFE Act and a raft of others that have discussed in great detail in this forum.Further, while the servicing law extensions referred to did not go into effect until January, that does not allow a new acquisition (which is what is being proposed) by a servicer of pre January contracts any kind of grandfathered immunity from the legalities that existed at the time of origination. 

BACKGROUNDFor the last couple years, we've had one single private lender that we've partnered on rehab projects with.But after reading and watching Alan Cowgill's material, we decided to host a luncheon, so that we can take on more projects.After speaking with our Accountant, attorney, and speaking to the SEC, we purchased a mailing list of local Accredited Investors, and sent over 1000 of them very nice, professionally-done invitations to our luncheon.We even hired a company to man a toll free line so that we could accept RSVP's 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.The luncheon was held at a very expensive, 5-star hotel in our area.THE PROBLEMOnly one attendee showed up.We're thinking about giving it another try.

You may also want to check out a TREIA meeting where there are numerous investor friendly agents. 

I've tried numerous times over there years and have come real close a couple times.

Thanks for the invite @Mark S.