For most purposes, it tends to balance out between attorney-owned title companies and non-attorney companies. 

Hello all, I am making my first home purchase (a bit of a fixer upper) and would like to include a clause in the escrow agreement that allows me to back out (while recovering my earnest money) if the inspection finds any major (as in, cuts the projected home value in half and makes the deal non-viable to me) problems. 

In mfh you don’t get Fannie non recourse lending until you are over 1 m loan size.

All of the data is shown right in front of you, and you have to apply your own heuristics for selecting the appropriate comps including their age, distance from the subject, counts of rooms, size within of each other, lot sizes, etc.We can discuss all day long about how good or bad Zillow data is, and honestly, it depends very much on the market, and how quickly a sale gets reflected in the public record.In my SoCal market, it's actually pretty quickly, and I often end up using a blend of suggested comps from Zillow and my own comps that I import from other places such as Redfin, your free MLS alternative.

I no longer live here but know alot of people from here and there is a Non profit that owns 7 duplexes that are all 1bed/1 bath.

The reason I ask is, what if you started non-renewing the Sec 8....granted you lose that "guaranteed rent" (heh, ask me about THAT sometime), but if you can get it up to market rent gradually while reducing expenses, this deal may still work.3) Cash flow & NOI are key components that determine the market value of multi-unit/commercial property. 

I examined the area and with the help of one of my tenants i discovered that there was a large crack on the bottom of the tub but it had gone unnoticed because there is usually a non slip mat over it in the tub. 

There's so much information out there and honestly my head is swimming.

If using a lender this is a non issue.

I can't speak to the audit rates of other firms, but I do know that several non-forensic firms have been put out of business because they have failed several audits.