Many of those deal aren't deals, they are divorce settlements, transfers to family or trusts may be investors putting stuff in an llc.Sounds too like your Realtor just put you on the public side of the mls, solds are there but limited to mls members, a Realtor giving out access to the public would be in for it, doubt you'll have that much of a favor unless you marry them.Try courthouse records, multiple mortgagors are buyers with financing, grantees with no deed of trust are cash buyers.

I didn't want to spend too much more energy on the deal until we got that data.

Sign up, but don't pay, there will still be plenty of listings you can look at and get an idea of how others are showing the data.

The data you sent over does not look complete to me and it is difficult to tell if these are actual numbers or pro forma estimates.

The tax assessor has a year from the date of transfer to re-assess the property at fair market value.

It has a roof that is 6 years old and a new boiler. ...OK, 6 units, and one boiler = landlord pays utilities at least for heatI doubt there is a net of $19K based on gross of $31K with landlord paid heat.So right there, you should be clued in to be suspicious of any seller supplied data - it tends to overstate things in favor of the seller, much to the detriment of any would-be buyer.And the fact that the seller bought it for so little will partially explain the lower out-of-pocket for the seller; a buyer paying more will have bigger costs to deal with (in terms of debt service at least).

Just wondering also how to transfer deed so buyer can realize the 4% tax rate.

Since all of our properties are in my name..... this makes sense to transfer to my wife on death.

I would like to hear others chime in on the practice of taking title in personal name, financing in personal name, then transferring title to an LLC post close.

You can also ask them to pay for your marketing costs, ask them to provide MLS access/data, etc.