The location is barred to the south and East by the interstate, canals and swampland about a mile in each of those directions, thus you only have about a 1 to 1.5 mile market those two directions. 

It's under the tools bar

My partner and I are relatively new to the real estate investing scene (2 combined flips).

To anyone outside of Virginia, check out your state's bar association for referrals.

In 2013, more bidders came on the scene and the deals were gone.Near the end, I didn't go physically inspect the condos because we had enough experience with them that we could make assumptions based on the averages.

The calculator can't distinguish each asset's condition, or whether this street is one to avoid even if the next street is perfectly fine (and in Cincinnati, there are neighborhoods, particularly in the financial crisis, where one stretch of road (talking a block) has bars on windows and you don't go there after dark, while the adjoining streets are totally fine.Glad to hear you avoided what sounds like a bad investment.  

Doesn't matter where it is, just has to be a a good one so they learn how things work behind the scenes.

Long term benefit would be I’d have a place to live come next November, and the Airbnb scene (it’s south Florida) is very popular so I could be looking at decent returns for most of the year once the tenants are out.Is it worth going for it and maybe trying to deal with removing the tenants over the course of their remaining lease, or leaving them in place and biting the bullet for 16 months and count on long term benefits?

-What are the sleazy tactics that are done behind the scenes to fleece you out of your money?

You don’t want to set the bar for being the highest rent among the comps.