@Justin Scott I think you are better off establishing square footage estimates than trying to get a GC to give you a cost estimate, then trying to find a buyer, then him getting estimates, yada, yada, yada.Sit down with a GC, or someone else that knows the trade and get ball park sq ft estimates. 

This kind of investing still requires the kind of decision making and management that is difficult to automate.

That's pretty easy to do when your overall competition largely consists of people who have trouble understanding the long-term outcomes of the bad business decisions they make and execute.

My goal right now is a successful transition to a new job, but I want to make sure I am making the right financial decisions in that process. 

When one is thinking of an investment that is sound and just “makes sense”, sometimes we all too quickly look at things like any publicly traded company's daily charts.

@Sean Whiteman, The Rioprop decision is in the nature of an affirmative defense.

I am a software engineer by trade so if the data is in a raw format I can still work with it.

This can end up putting us in a situation where there may be a lot of competition for the property and it forces us to move so quickly that we have to make decisions before we can property evaluate the situation. 

., mesh with the laws and regulations related to what type of street to install for a local government to accept it and maintain it along with the business decision to perhaps have an HOA maintain it instead. 

In any case, would that be a deterrent in your decision and if not, what is the success rate or could you provide any success or failure stories or tips on how to raise the rental value of a property you acquired which involved taking over the leases of current tenants at lower than valued rental prices?