If you are buying in ESTABLISHED and KNOWN owner occupied and are doing RETAIL flips then you can get a pretty good handle  on ARV through all the methods mentioned above.However if your trying to comp low end cheapie houses that are rentals.. then they are only worth what basically a wholesaler will pay for them.. regardless of comps.

One good reason is that any sensible retail buyer will shy away from such properties if the mold and leakage are significant.

One awcommercial.com goes to my other specialty sites www.nnnrealestateinfo.com for retail and triple net stuff and the other goes to apartments www.apartmentinvestingusa.comI am doing more work to those as well but right now I am focusing on the main page.

You are competing against all other retail buyers.Why did the house come out of contract at $249,000?

Karen Margrave Hi,I hope you are well.In the area I was looking and most of the Northland (Kansas City North) for that matter, the past decade has seen a lot of new retail construction and redevelopment.

I own a great 3 tenant retail strip 10 miles east of Dallas.Also I would caution you against setting your cash on cash return goals, unrealistically high (16%).

If it's a brew pub, retail, especially the in the restaurant-brew pub business is very difficult.  

Historically they've been between 5% to 15% below the fair market value, sometime more, but this year the margins have been squeezed and inventory levels lowered, thereby pushing the prices up closer to the market retail level.Hope that answered your question.Continued success!

Some turnkey companies may be willing to help you sell it but they'll want a good portion of the spread between their cost to produce a turnkey and the retail turnkey price.

So far I've had several good leads on potential buyers from posting a home I had for sale in those groups.As for the ad results: The one lead out of thousands of impressions and about 40 website clicks to my site has been one lady trying to sell her home at retail price.