It's a crap shoot with these guys and they are (for the most part) running scared and low-balling.

On their video tutorial, they said their AVM and RVM are not exact representation of the comps itself so if we were to find comps, we have to do it ourselves and not just blindly rely on AVM, RVM.

Let us know a little more about yourself.BTW - Here are two tutorials that I think you and any other new users will find helpful about using the site:- Getting the Most Out of BiggerPockets: A Tutorial- How to Effectively Use BiggerPockets to Build Your Business

A lot of it is a crap shoot and depends on the appraiser himself.

I can provide the best place in world and dump 50K into a 23K home, but I am still only going to get 350 bucks a month, because the neighborhood is crap and thats what the going rate is.

Ben raises a good point.You want to buy using the formula so that you can flip to an investor who has crap credit.

My real dream is to hold many income producing investments, and I am currently studying a "Carlton Sheets" home-tutorial I purchased back in 2001, (slightly out of date, bought it and let it sit unopened in my basement for all of these years) nevertheless, it is the new concepts that are educating me.

However, you'll never find a SFH for under $150k in downtown Orlando, where the median price is in the mid-200s.That said, and as I just wrote in my prior post, I know Zillow is crap, but it's Very hard to find anything for sale less than tax-assessed value.

He happens to outsource some of the work to a short sale team as my friend knows he is crap at follow up with corporate types (loss mitigation folks).

You see so much crap out there that it makes you raise an eyebrow at everyone...