Writing or printing out letters will take up to much of your time.Most companies that sell lists will give you plenty of options to weed out names that are irrelevant to your business, for instance you can select: 3/2's with Absentee owners that live out of state with a tax assessed value less then 100k.

In MD from what I understand you have to pay transfer taxes on the quitclaim deed (usually just levied at what the assessed value is) is this different other places?

The larger asset management companies are managing thousands of properties.If they do counter your offer higher, however, you can almost guarantee that the number at which they counter was the most recently turned in BPO assessment.

I recently won a bid on a house for 30k, and would like to hear your input on what's my best course of action.I purchased this property as a buy and hold, and am looking to rent it out indefinitely after a few months of me living in it while i'm fixing her up.After a run down assessment of the property, i'm estimating around $10-15K is needed in order to make it appealing when the time comes for rental.I have around 8k of emergency savings in the bank that I can use, but I'd rather not touch that money since I like having a small cusion just in case life happens to throw curves.So what would be my best option for funding the renovation?

For a more REI applicable example, If I were to post an article up to my subscribers about Finding Home Values, I would also post short link and description at the bottom about visiting a friendly realtor I met that does home assessments.

The market has its way to adjust to the actual value (Mark to market as the banks dread it) That's why I completely discard ARV estimates, tax assessments and all other nonsense statements that seller put out there that mean nothing.

One thing I noticed on BiggerPockets.com when people ask for deal advice, is that they often don't provide enough detail on the deal for others to make a reasonable assessment.

I'm going down to check out the situation next week to assess the full scope of the problem.

can you get that reduced by appealing assessed values?

I know someone who has 65 properties and has offered to sell me any of them at the tax assessed value.