Find some relevant episodes of the Bigger Pockets Podcast and listen to those for inspiration and to learn a bit more. 

@Liz ColeEver since BP updated their search, it seems to me to be more cluttered, confusing and not as relevant and accurate as it used to be even if you use multiple filters.I can't figure it out.They seem to have "fixed" what was not broken.

Transfer taxes are based upon the price... and the rate differs depending on the selling price (not the profit, which would be relevant for your income taxes).Here is an overview: http://www.state.nj.us/treasury/taxation/lpt/rtffa...

., if you have both options (yes, that might be a relevant "if"), then the neatest loan should be a straight Refi, because your resulting cash flow is contained within one neat package of: income minus expenses, for that property.Whereas, LOCs may end up being allocated to random deals here and there, and it might become less easy to know exactly how much each property is really costing you / earning you, so you may end up averaging your income and expenses between all your deals.

In my financial model I built, I take into account any and all relevant expenses giving me my NOI then net out my financing giving me that COC.

The easy way: O conveys to E via deed in lieu.The not-so-easy way: judicial or non-judicial foreclosure, depending on what the underlying docs were.The hard way: declatory judgement in district court.The really hard way: declatory judgement in probate courts, with a side of procedure to determine heirship.There may be other options, depending on what other facts are relevant, but this is a sampler of what it takes to clean up issues. 

You can utilize reonomy to insert your buyers criteria and find relevant off market properties...

That's relevant because the city that was the "arsenal of democracy" became "motor city," it has now  become in no small part "mortgage city" (there are people who's families have literally done that transition, across a few generations, from grandpa building the bombers to dad building the cars to kid putting together the mortgages). 

But it's not relevant.

Hey Matthew, Two things stood out to me in this post that IMO will always be relevant.1.