So if they're terrible, that just brings the deal down a notch as you know they will be tough to deal with and you very well may have to evict them.

List brokers will have a tough time getting the correct information, because most apartments are held in an LLC. 

These days, you will have a tough time just finding one that breaks even. 

(He's a well known Youtuber now so it may be tough to reach him.)

Tough to cash flow in the more expensive cities in CA at this point.

NJ is a tough market.

So you and your agent need to look at the data for comparable pending and (very) recently sold homes, as well as whatever active homes may be available - because solds and pending aside, the value of this prospective home will be comparatively lower if there are 15 similar homes on the market for buyers to look at compared to if there are just one, two, or zero other homes like this for buyers.And I know it's tough with HUD homes because they don't take escalators, but in the end, armed with your market analysis data, you need to bid your 'walk away' price, meaning that if you bid a dollar under what it goes for you'd be OK with not getting it, rather than kicking yourself and wishing you had bid a dollar more.

You can definitely have a more hands on approach and vet each contractor and try to manage them from afar but unless you luck out and find an incredible GC, who is not very busy, this will be quite tough. 

- the CA ban on gas & diesel vehicles (2035) will put gas stations, oil refineries, etc out of business - so unemployed gas station employees, oil field workers & mechanics; closed gas stations, repair shops & car dealerships (a new blight of abandoned commercial RE?

It's tough because we have a lot of emotional attachment to this house, but we've decided it's in the best interest of our future selves to invest in real estate now, and part of that plan is to move out of this home, and purchase another for 5% down.