The irony is that some realtors and brokers use those zestimates(and/or other inaccurate data) to inflate the "pro forma" calculations when it's in their clients favor, so always do your own comparable!

However, the stats for marketable business-related masters degrees can be very favorable.

I recently (as a favor to a long time client who had bought it for a relative) sold a villa in such a community and I found that the nicer/higher priced properties were not the first to sell.

Rinse & repeat till you've got enough cash stacked up for the down payment.J/V with someone.Convince a seller to sell to you with very favorable seller financing terms.

We have an LLC but the lenders have more favorable options if we borrow as four individuals. 

I’ve heard many challenged appraisals go in the favor of the seller.

Since I will be personally living here, I sacrificed getting a better deal in favor of getting into an updated place in a better neighborhood.

That $400 cost is more favorable than additional month(s) of vacancy. 

Maybe you would be doing a favor by leaving it the same instead of raising it.

Really good self managers have a whole way of doing things that works entirely in their favor.