A 'prudent' buyer, as you called them, should be well aware of this discrepancy in investment strategy and adjust their offer accordingly.

Over the life of the loan that discrepancy is $89,699.47  That is for a 30 year loan.    

I'm also struggling with the price discrepancies of laminate flooring.

@Tamara PerryIn many places, the assessed value of a property for tax purposes has far more to do with the hunger of local coffers than the actual market value of the property.There may be no actual significance to the discrepancy you have observed or it may indicate the property is devalued with respect to its peers (or that it has an outlandish assessed value in comparison to its peers) - looking at the neighbourhood tax assessments will shed light on this.  

Do you think this could the discrepancy between pre foreclosure and foreclosures on the market?  

If you don't do this the home will always be less marketable because most buyers will notice the discrepancy between the actual sq. ft.

It took time to get to this point but now they have confidence in what they read and of course over the years in order to gain their confidence I always made any mistakes in perceptions not cost them anything, any discrepancies in perception ended in their favor, this created confidence that there was nobody try to 'gotcha' them, and secondly I've always made it clear that if there was something extra not on the scope, hidden, something that couldn't be forseen to simply let me know, explain it and give me a change order.

This is the reason your searches are sometimes taking several days to complete.Keep in mind that if you are relying completely on a database for your criminal records, there will be false positive hits, discrepancies, inaccurate records and information that is not up-to-date.

There is a discrepancy with the security deposit.

@Adam Balsinger I was calculating the ARV based off of the comps, but since there was such a big discrepancy it was hard to zero in on them.