I think this was pure laziness, and rather than being forced to justify his amounts, he just went and found some reason to change the values without having to do extra work by adding a higher priced comp. 

So someone who is looking purely to maximize potential return (and has unlimited time) is unlikely to find this a good fit.Good luck with your search.

If you have measured goals of real estate success, if you actually want to integrate into a community and help improve it, Pittsburgh is a point of pure light on the map of the USA.

What makes a self-directed IRA custodian different is that they are not purely connected to the public exchanges and limited to investing in stocks, bonds and funds, but rather have the staff training and paperwork to document the IRA's investment in the more individualized transactions that occur when investing in real estate, notes and other non-traditional assets.

What makes a self-directed IRA custodian different is that they are not purely connected to the public exchanges and limited to investing in stocks, bonds and funds, but rather have the staff training and paperwork to document the IRA's investment in the more individualized transactions that occur when investing in real estate, notes and other non-traditional assets.

You can do silly repairs yourself… like figuring out the batteries in the thermostat are why the AC won’t turn on; that it was a tripped circuit breaker even though they swear they checked them.  

The pictures are also very grainy & not the clearest.I think this is also a big reason to not buy a property purely based off what AirDnA says.

I have managed this unit myself and and my mortgage payment used to be so low that at $850 I still cashflowed and made money to set aside for CapEx so that I have never come out of pocket for when I replaced the AC and appliances.I really want to lease my unit at market rate (looking at $300 a month in pure cashflow), but tenant said she will live in the unit in the same condition and pay $1200.  

Example, City of Los Angeles in their RD1.5 zone, allows in the 1XL height zone, if your project is purely residential, to only be limited to height in feet not number of stories.

But here, it is pretty standard on every new house that goes up as they build them as fast as they can.So yes, I do think major "standard" renovations (IE floors and counters etc rather than theming) will bring you more revenue than you're getting currently, but not as much of an increase as you'd see if you did the same thing in a different market, and probably not enough to justify the cost purely from an ROI standpoint.