If they don't have an online site you can simple go down to the building and zoning department with the address and request all permits/work authorized.It's a great thing you're thinking this way because it could save you're butt down the road!

Just because the electrician made repairs doesnt mean those items were necessarily present before the dryer was plugged in.

I was very involved in a REIA down there and looking to get plugged in with a good network of like minded investors back here in MD.

After receiving only (1) estimate, I plugged in the numbers and offered accordingly and won in a highest & best situation. 

Did you plug it into a calculator and that is the value to get to your hurdle ?

Thanks for the plug @Bob Malecki!

Just keep plugging away at tried and true methods.

I just plugged the same number into my spread sheet on the ARV line for now, I have not had them reappraised,As far as the property management. 

And if they're not reasonable, you can just plug away and hope to find the 1 in 1,000, wait for a drop (and hope interest rates are the same, capital is readily available, etc.), seek out less desirable properties, or seek out a less desirable market. 

For most of us there is a lot of waste on holding costs due to vacancy (interest, taxes, insurance, utilities, lawn, etc) in any rehab project that we have to plug into a spreadsheet to figure out what we can pay.