If someone promises you to find forclosures before they hit the market, he is either talking about solicitating home owners that have gotten behind on their payments (which comes with a whole list of human and legal issues) or he is making stuff up (or does not understand what he is talking about), because banks will not sell single forclosures any other way than listing it through on MLS through an REO discount broker.

@Jacobus RexThis time of year they come inside because it’s starting to get cold and with their instinct they think long term not like humans lol you need to fill in the mouse holes where they could come in .

Whether or not this is human caused may be debatable but data is data.

reno takes longer than expected, shopping at Habitat for Humanity stores and similar reuse stores are a godsend...

Humans have been doing this for 1000s of years. 

Human compassion trumps profit under these circumstances. 

In most cases with this type of appraisal, investors will pay a bit extra to have a real human being look at the results the algorithm has generated and make adjustments so that the comps would be more representative of the subject property, if possible. 

I look at Cash on Cash return because cash flow is like the blood in any business body.

Instead of working solely with my body just pushing my physical limits.

I guess I assumed that being a QI was like being a CPA or a lawyer in that their was some body that licensed them,  but after watching "American Greed" I learned I was mistaken.