The market is saturated if you don’t have the creativity to look beyond the top dozen or so markets.

Have them check the entire home, not just the areas you are aware of, and mitigate the issue altogether. 

Welcome to the steel city, I have been investing here for 7 years.

And thankfully, by the time I needed to execute on those options and actually complete the purchase of the leased properties, I had developed some private lender relationships that allowed me to complete those 3 transactions and several more thereafter.

Though, this process will be the same for the other state (if you created a CA LLC you may need to register it as a foreign LLC in the state in which you are doing business/holding property).

Despite the Ohio Building Code recognizing the basement bedroom as a legitimate bedroom, the appraiser did not include the basement in the general living area (GLA) and didn’t assign much value, if any, to the additional finished space.Has anyone dealt with this challenge before?

The big problem here is if the quality of work is no good.

Seller who had been on the property and had gone through divorce.

Hey @Eddie Miretsky, I am in MA myself, but in the Northshore area.

@Or UziCongratulations on entering the U.S. real estate market from Israel!