I had hoped that since the mold was so bad, and the house was so strangely unique for this area without having apples to apples as comparables to ever be a good candidate for a flip, that even at $200K it would send any and all investors running, I guess I was wrong.

I happened to notice the Carleton Sheets "Quick Start" in his stack of old tapes in his TV stand.It's a pretty entertaining flick.

They NYTimes has a very good rent v buy calculator:http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy...One major flaw when analyzing rent v buy is you need to compare apples to apples.

Sounds like you have found out first hand the TV shows are a bit misleading when it comes to renovations and repairs. 

Unfortunately, some people present REI as easy (TV) but forget to mention to newbie that it can also be costly. 

There are rotten apples everywhere, hence the need for due diligence.

@Joseph S. actually meant to say Apple Blossom, not Flowering Peach.  

I also paid for an app: DealCheck from the Apple Store!

There are a lot of shows out there in TV land that you should watch cautiously. 

A:  Yes...and again, you don't know what they are.5) The analysis is based on Zillow recently sold searches for 2/1 and evaluation of county auditor sales in past 5 years of 2/1's in the neighborhood.A:  Much better, but I hope you didn't use the Zestimate...and I also hope your criteria for sold comps "in the neighborhood" only included properties within 1 mile, in the same city, that are within 10% in sq ftg of the property being analyzed...or it's not "apples to apples".