So, to all investors who are willing to share some ideas, I greatly appreciate it and with your help, I hope to become a reliable member in the future as well!

All you really need are some reliable contractors to respond to maintenance issues, particularly emergencies.

Rentometer is not a very reliable source, especially for nicer and updated units.

Is there enough of a data set of these tax sales In your area, during the recent economy, to come up with a statistical likelihood that is reliable??????

She will tell you anything you want to hear and is not a reliable source of information.Personally, I would dig really, really deep or (my more likely choice) deny the application.

Here are a few steps you can take to improve the reliability of your tenant screening process:1.

Jaime The cost approach (land value + depreciated cost of improvements) is typically the least reliable indicator of value.

Don't wait for the insurance adjustor - call a reliable water/mold remediator like ServPro. 

I m an agent who works with New Western and I would like to offer you an explanation, first we are the ONLY reliable wholesale market supplier who will show you everything at front, we offer a package ,this property package which is btw free ,has ALL the information for you to make an informed decision, but we are not an education center provider, second we didn’t keep your money and disappeared we helped you to get a deal maybe not a good one for you , that’s why is always good to either be a realtor contractor hard money lender otherwise you will ALWAYS be spending extra money on those people, we deal with savvy buyers and few times will deal with first timers and the reason we don’t deal much with unexperienced is because first timers need time and they are quite slow and our houses are gone normally in a couple of days if not hours now we SELL A PROPERTY every 13 minutes if we are that bad ask the another thousands of investors who uses us some monthly and we ALWAYS recommend to buy with a general contractor opinion or due diligence is on our contract.Reading your story is just a sad victimization of a poor decision and again we never advertise for the best deals just a deal if you don’t want it let it go and look for another one next day or so ,what for you was terrible for an experienced person not at all , there is always exit strategies BRRR DSCR buy and hold etc  one thing for sure you never loose in real estate maybe you make less and it’s fine onto the next ! 

Once you properly square away a well-built Depression-era property in Pittsburgh, it stays squared away reliably much more than anything built during the Steel City Crapshack Era.