so cost me 2500.00 to replace repair and attorney fees. and we will never buy off the shelf plumbing from Home depost unless its state approved.. we buy very few items actually from home depot.Although my supply house right now cant get liquid nails for framing and I made run to our home depot and bought every box of liquid nails they had enough to do about 10 of the next 30 homes i am building thats how crazy things have gotten on the supply chain issues.

@James Mc Ree You nailed it!

Finally, we get to your original question, of Crystal Clear criteria. 

The problem is the top tenet has become unruly and needs to be evicted, the houses were renting for 850 each and i am not knowledgeable in evictions. but if this gets me into the game ill fight tooth and nail to get this property if its worth it!

My advice is to make some offers and use your brother and the due diligence period to make your final decision. 

Only thing you are moat likely referring to is the eviction moratorium finally being lifted. 

I have been following and learning from Bigger Pockets for years. I never had the opportunity to really apply myself to real estate because of the military. About three years ago I decided to retire after 25 years in ...

for example, if land was worth 200k (by county assessor in 2022) but apprasied at 50k at time of purchase in 1988, which number ultimately gets subtracted from the final sale price to calculate the capital gain?

It would kill us if we worked all these years, finally cashed out only to put the proceeds into something that locked our funds up and then handed us back 50% of it.

Cosign what Joe said....nail on the head.