Account ClosedAside from your analysis that a property with 1000/month rents is a bad investment, I not sure how you arrived at your numbers. 

Despite that fact that they were ex-felons, it seemed fine at first, but as we got closer to the deadline, they quit responding to my calls and texts.Sure enough, when the day to leave had arrived, they still had a ton of junk that hadn't been removed, so I was forced to call the cops at that point.  

The results were all over the place (Zillow reporting: "Homes like this sold for $33-$80k"), and the Tax assessors site shows values in the region of 50% of the values from the other sites ($64k.Any advice as to how I arrive at an ARV to start calculating what I should be offering, to get me out of the gate would be very much appreciated!

based solely on what you arrived at as far as valuations and possible purchase price, it sounds like it may have great potential.

Yes i am trying to "hack" my housing expenses. 1st baby arriving in June and would like for my wife to not have to work.Within 5 years I would like to own several MFH's that all cash flow enough combined to pay the mortgage on a SFH (Dream home).

Contractor would guarantee that he would cover any cost above the $550,000 noted.I want to arrive at a fair treatment for this deal.

Okay, only because your next question is kinda hard to understand....it's not 75% LTV (loan to value) it's ARV (after repair value less rehab costs) I think is what some goby.I don't use rules of thumb, I sharpent a pencil and use my calculator, see what the MV will be repaired, subtract costs of the sale, subtract cost of the rehab and my profit, costs to acquire it and then arrive at my offer.

One of the biggest and quickest turn offs for me is arriving to an agents website and it looks like everyone else's(your standard RE agents website), has no real call to action.

There was already a lawsuit that was won from an out of state investment company. 1000 homeowners signing a petition won't stop the billions of dollars being invested into this.

Well I arrived at the homes which you could not see since the yard had weeds 10 feet high.