Get an excellent inspector or contractor that has dealt with fire damaged buildings to go through the building with you to verify.

@Frank Scala Lacking actual tax returns and verified expenses and income, you should count on at least 50% of income to go to expenses other than financing costs.

Sometimes an agreed upon price range contingent up on verifying condition and/or lien issues.

You do not have to claim they are inaccurate, you can simply request that the CRA verify the information.

I had no way of verifying this one way or the other.

1) ask the seller straight up about it.2) verify with whatever county agency handles foreclosure filings, ask Them how to verify, check status, etc.If foreclosure has been filed, and he has equity, there should be some motivation.

Lastly, you would always want to verify all of the expenses - 60% is just a general first look qualifier, and actual expenses may be more or less.

how exactly do they verify that someone is married or unmarried?

I do rely on zestimate for rent since I've found it has been fairly accurate, but I still verify with the MLS.

@Jesse Lawrence If you're actually going to build an "apartment", verses a bedroom and space to rent, you need to verify zoning allows for 2 units, which I doubt if it's in a SFR neighborhood.