I got 2 phone calls: the first was a lady explaining that the house had actually been knocked down recently.

From someone with no real construction experience, it appeared beyond repair (compared to knocking it down and starting over).

My advise would be to do some driving and see who in the neighborhood has done it, knock on their door and ask.

If I'm buying a 3 family, knocking it down - can I build a building with 3 condos on it?

Anyway...the BOH felt the lot was too small for the new septic field and suggested...knocking down the garage to accommodate the new leach field, which we told them we would not do b/c it would remove value from our asset and also the house is already under contract to be sold with a garage.

If you have $100 to spend you're going to want to use strategies that weigh more on your time but can generate great results (driving for dollars, cold calling, door knocking, etc).

I'm sure the lot knocks $25-30k or so off the comps. 

The reason it works is because people who perpetrate fraud are good at what they do – separating you from your money.Unfortunately, some of our victims became victims because they responded to an unsolicited mailer, phone call, or knock on the door.

@Demetri Xanthos, it's likely the town assessor will come knocking now that the renovations are finished.

Quarterly Door-knock (get email and/or phone number, direct mail (your solds and listings and market updates), free CMAs, quarterly phone calls, monthly drip emails with something of value.