That was a couple of years ago and depending on the amount they may utilize tax assessment instead of appraisal.

If crime and safety are issues, then work on helping neighbors communicate better.If the area is safe but burdened with a bad rep, the work on promotion.If the area is doing fine but abandoned, then make sure good news storied get picked up in local media.I wrote an entire book on the topic.

I happened to utilize Veteran's United.....Gerry Landry was my guy over there.

@Lamont MarableYou better off investing that $15k on a project with a seasoned investor and pick his brains until you don't have anymore questions and make $$$ at the same time

Pick out your target market (it sounds like Montana, but you may want to narrow it down further). 

If both properties have full access on their portion, without a need to utilize the other half, then there is no need for a shared driveway easement/agreement. 

Pick a place to pays for trash and hopefully water as well.

In which case, I would need to get bids on total tear down plus stick build, utility hookup, etc.

For some of the properties all of the utilities are built into the fees which you'd need to build into the monthly rent and could be a substantial amount.

However, everything else about this property lines up very well, and I want to pull the trigger or move on asap, since I've already analyzed it forwards and backwards.Here are the details:625k PPcurrent monthly income $5,600, annual income after expenses (utilities, taxes, maintenance, repairs) is 46k, which would cash flow after debt service, but not a ton.However.