He didn't believe the acquisition price was good enough "per door" (he was comparing it to SFH ratios) to make a profit.

Seriously, they won't even tell me and I work here.Basically, the points reward for great content.

Some key points on the Single-Family segment are:*November '18 sales volume down 2% from Nov '17*November '18 median price up 4.4% to $235,000 (the highest ever for a November on record)*Year to Date, sales volume 4.6% higher compared to 2017's record volume.

As they're demoing the roof (and making a HUGE mess around the property, tar and gravel roof+ pine needles being thrown around the yard with no tarps), he comes back and tells me that spacing between the decking is too far apart compared to code, and it's going to be an extra $3,500 to redeck the entire roof (could have told me this when he gave me the initial quote, wasn't hard to see that).

And if they did sell for those amounts look at the pictures of those houses and compare them to yours.

Do you not check on recently sold comparable properties first?

Anybody know of any software that can scrape things like Realtor or Zillow, as well as match fields like Property Tax, and Rental income (comparing to say Rentometer or something)?

In order to invest out of state and scale I realize this is not my comparative advantage.

Compare that with other banks.  

Use a site like bankrate.com to quickly compare the various banks rates and the minimum deposit amounts.