@Joe GrazianoI don’t know if you found your answer or not but from a technology perspective, you need to get access to the MLS API and obtain a key to which could feed data to your site.

Any criteria for how fresh the list needs to be for results?

Taking only the good deals and walking from the bad from a business perspective seem logical, but it will hurt in the long run as your path to getting lending will be severely restricted.

It would be great to have you join our group and share contractor perspectives.  

You might want to read Rich Dad, Poor Dad for a different perspective on owning the property you live in. 

I'd be happy to share my insights and perspectives if you'd like to talk.

just not sure this is the case or not from an accounting perspective, nor how to actually record it properly.This is a run down version of the accounting, but still fairly accurate...  

My hit rates have gone up over past year because I know what the sellers tendencies and bid on what I want and I know will fit their sales cost profile. for me I wont do any of these deals without fresh title insurance..

They will most likely order a fresh appraisal prior to funding and help you come up with an ARV based on the improvements that you want to make.

So keeping that in perspective I'd say the best rule is your student loans shouldn't exceed 60% of your career's 25% percentile wage.