Your option to rent the present home is a terrible decision, it is not a suitable rental candidate and would be a mistake to hold for that purpose.$1000 rent on a $260K home is a major financial mistake.

She also knew that December was going to be a terrible time to place a tenant in her home.

Its not a terrible unit in a C+ to B- area.  

She proceeded to use terrible comps from other towns and give a ridiculously low value.  

I think you would be crazy to do this as the neighborhood is terrible and providing new homes will only prove to get trashed like the others. 

Alex Klimenko : San Diego is a terrible place for what I do (commercial multifamily, at least IMO).

Please tell me how bad on a scale of 1-10. 1 Being terrible, 10 being a good idea.Flat fee buyer representation. $59 an hour, or whatever wage makes sense for you and your market;  every dime of the buyer commission gets refunded to the buyer.

The crime maps don't seem that terrible and some of the schools are actually rated really good near the homes I'm checking out.

Thus far we've had a terrible winter but my site hasn't really needed heat until this week (it isn't possible to heat a house that is not insulated).

A list in a spreadsheet is a terrible way to schedule a job with all of these tasks, so I put it into my schedule program.