This is not a good move on the banks part, but they tend to delay any costs as long as they can. 

This is hands down one of the best investments I've made in my own education (for contrast: my BS and doctorate cost me $250K, and for RE, apart from books, I recently spent $18K on a syndication coach and $5K on multifamily strategy with Christian & Cody) -- and her course was a fraction of these costs at only $2.5K (Soli: you should up your prices, you are worth it)!

These forums are even more powerful because you'll connect with folks who are learning about and/or implementing the same things mentioned on the podcast.3 suggestions:1.

However they are slow and they will do their research to determine valuesWhoever the taxing authority is, they will look at the value of the property in its current condition, then subtract foreclosure costs, marketing and closing costs to arrive at a net value to them.

., replacement cost.

I highly recommend investing close to home because of the great Chicago Real Estate Investing.I love the book Mindset, The One Thing, The Power of Now -> all more mindset books but I believe in mindset first and then investing!

This assessment is another powerful lure to attract people and investment dollars.

Some people purchase a property for cost segregation/accelerated depreciation purposes to save on their taxes.

Even in the smaller markets, a life cycle of a deal can stretch out 6 months before the exit and that can cost 30k once all is said and done.I like to tell people 50k is a nice starting point capital wise. 

I can barely get firms to look at columbus with 10x years of experience thats mostly for ground up. the average house cost is still less than 100k which means you have a lot of houses to tear down still to create a housing shortage. the economics don't make it favorable for any type of investing but turn key or maybe ground up in the urban core which works in any city. but compare any of these cities, I'll take Indianapolis, Chicago, Minneapolis, and columbus and Milwaukee and pass on the rest.