Right now I'm just plugging in each home on lojic.

This forum seems like a good place to follow conversations about individual markets over the years and I've been getting a lot of practice plugging in assumptions to calculators based on properties I see on public services like Zillow.

The tenant has created a heath and safety hazard due to a child repeated waking at 4 am and plugging the bathroom sink and running the water until it overflows and comes through the ceilings of the floor below and continues to the basement.

I’ve just been grabbing stuff off the mls and plugging it in, multiple things daily.

I plugged in an address and there was a $200 difference.

If you are an established company with 50+ properties and an trusted people on the ground to look for you, I would not travel.If I were you, my butt would be in a car/plane/train/horse.

Once you know a specific contractors pricing, you can then plug in those numbers to your spreadsheet and then calculate on your own for each prospective purchase instead of asking a contractor for a bid on each property before you have it locked up.Once you have a locked contract, then a contractor is more likely to offer a free bid on that project knowing there is a higher chance of getting it.

I would highly recommend for you to get plugged in to some local real estate groups in your area.  

They claim their list is licensed and vetted places, but my wife seems to think their list is places that will give them kick backs.It has been 3 months loosing money and my wife wants to pull the plug.

Remember two things that I was told a long time ago that have proven true:  (1) there is more money floating around our society than you can ever imagine; and (2) the people with the money to invest have just as big a problem as the guys like you who don't have cash but are willing to work their butt's off to make a better life for their kids.