Sorry for all the caps, just writing with emphasis.

My day job is Avionics Software Engineer, so I am trying to learn how one evaluates such commercial properties and how one obtains factual information to based investment decision on such class of properties.The broker who proposed this purchase provided nice graphs with comparable curves of average vs. the property metrics, such as prices per sq.ft, vacancy, price per unit etc.However, the report is missing correlation to a specific properties the comparison is based on.Am I being unreasonable by asking comp information that is customary for SFR and low count multi?

@Jason Eyerly you tag people by first typing @ and following it immediately with the first few letters of their name then below where you write this you'll see their name pop up.

Make sure you don't by an expensive software program to do this.There are products sold based on saving mortgage payers thousands of dollars.All you have to do is what Steve said above...and it is free!

We use the same MLS software and last night I got the same thing.I have several saved searches/auto emails setup so I can know when certain things come on and off the market and last night the system deactivated every search I had because it responded with more than 400+ listings for each search all at once; which I guess is too much for the system to handle.I went back in this morning and manually checked and reset it, wasn't legit.

If you haven't heard postage is going up this month. 1st class is going up 3 cents and postcards are going up 1 cent.http://about.usps.com/news/national-releases/2013/pr13_077.htmIf you plan on doing a lot of in house direct mail it is probably worth stocking up on forever stamps.Really we all should have done this last week to write it off as a 2013 expense but since that ship has sailed don't get screwed twice!

He found the buyers and didn't have anything in writing when it was time to get paid at the closing.

That's amazing, you should write up a success story in one of those threads.That's some real motivation to try to find a way to do a flip myself, I mean if you can do one from Kuwait??

I saw a great write up about BP on another blog that was discussing RE programs you have to pay for in Houston, ie, Lifestyles Unlimited.

Would any traditional lender even write a note that small?