@David Flores in my opinion if your goal is to sell any property at 50% of market value just work backwards from there on how much you would like to make. in your example of this property lets say you wanted to make $5,000. that property would have to retail at $34,000 in order for you to sell it at 50%($17,000) pay the $10,000 in liens and pay the owner $2,000I think everyone is going to be different on what they think their time is worth so if your happy putting up $12,000 for liens and purchase to make $3,000(25%ROI) because the market value is $30,000 then do it at the end of the day you have hungry new investors willing to make a $1,000 and get some education then you have pros that won't do a deal for less than $10,000. you just have to decide what your willing to accept both in monetary and education because both are currencies in the investing world@Brandy Horkey I second what you've said, I know in Florida that the county appraised value is strictly for tax purposes and not what the actually market value for a property is.

( our mother in law is the real estate agent and she will waive any commission on her end...what should we expect to net off a sale price of 270k in new jersey??)

Are you complying with zoning laws?

However, I would recommend getting a second opinion from your CPA (partially because Treasury Regulations can change things, particularly definitions, even after we have the new law in the book).

Don't know your lien laws there, here it it's 90 days from "last substantive" work. 

Hi Sarah,I  practice real estate law in Santa Rosa.

wow...For that price I'd consider doing it myself unless there's some law requiring professional cleaning.

Reach out to Jynell Berkshire at Berkshire Law.

What if one day the home owners association decided to not allow short term renting or possibly the state of HI passes laws banning short term renting (it's very controversial over here) and over night I go from a great cash flow rental to a rental thats in the red and possibly underwater if the bubble did pop.

I wouldn't worry about listing numbers, just strictly sales.