Well I guess this is just a Craigslist issue, but using IFTTT to try to pull some leads.I've read up on how to modify searches using "|" and "-" for adding or eliminating.When using the | I'm not getting the same results as if I search separately.Example is in LA, I did a search for Montrose|Toluca Lake and Montrose isn't showing up in the results.

I did find that electricity jumped for a couple weeks especially as I had crews in the place all day, and an agent advised me of the FHA rule after I was into the project by 21 days.Essentially it was the little stuff I hadn't planned on - this was a condo and a "resale certificate" is necessary... another few hundred unplanned, mandatory "dryer vent cleaning" (albeit I cannot fine this anywhere in the rules/regs of the association, its just cheaper to do it rather than fight it), cabinet pulls (after replacing counter tops, faucets and fixtures)... all in I came up with another $1400 of unplanned expense, eating up roughly 50% of my contingency budget!

Lenders will often be willing to work with you, based on forward projecting numbers but you also need to show them the full pro forma and probably a short business plan regarding how you intend to pull it off.

I arranged a time where the buyer can go walk through the property (I contacted the seller, the seller arranged with the tenant) and boom, the buyer wanted to pull the trigger at a price where I made $5k profit.

Ehhhh probably not so much.And then there's of course the standard biggerpockets.com advice to always be mortgaged to the hilt and ever more in debt, which would mean a cash out refinance to pull ~$200k out and buying something else.

I am speaking in the past tense because we didn't think this felt right without the wife not seeing the house as well, they supposedly got offended we weren't jumping at the high offer, and pulled it.  

Preliminary analysis was positive so I actually pulled the trigger to lock up the land.

You seem to be one of the few that pulls the trigger and gets things done, most people never end up making it to where you are.

keep it simple for now pull a list of probates for your area.

When comparing those with finished basements, I pulled the basement sq. ft. out separately but that is really skewing my numbers.In general, it certainly seems like buyers are paying around the same $/sq. ft of finished basement vs above ground.