I have heard it can cost 5K ++ to remediate the issue if there is lead in the pain.  

You can be 3-4 blocks away from the wild Wild West with bad guys and shooting and stealing.

And this is a decent size area so some blocks are going to be nicer than others.That is one reason you see such a large difference in price.  

These comps are all within about 3-4 blocks of the house and one was the same street and sold 5 days before for a little over $560k.

I have always been going about it the same way for a while and curious if anyone has tested different approaches and noticed better conversion rates from one approach to another.To be more specific on a cold call for example:Option 1: you immediately bring up that you have noticed the property is in a foreclosure status at the start of the call and/or make it known you are aware of their situationOption 2: you start off as a buyer looking to buy homes in their area/making cash offers and let them uncover their own pain points through purposeful questions to lead them to uncovering their motivation/situation.I have always done option 2 and it works well but I sometimes wonder if I could have a better conversion rate with a different approach.

Their attorneys are telling them that they will be TCPA compliant if the virtual assistant manually clicks send for each text message.If you want to cause some pain immediately, you can reply to the text message many times.

Lack of funds makes it very difficult (including for yours truly) to get off the starting blocks very quickly. 

Every time I get in the mindset to go through the pain of a refi again I realize I have an ample opportunity fund from cashflow. 

We had to take it down to the studs to properly account for sound rating and fire blocking, electrical etc.It was a painful and time consuming process, but am glad we did it properly.

The commission varies among this making pricing a pain in the butt on Airbnb and VRBO.