I'd like to work with someone who has experience with out-of-area investors and helping them understand the rental market, improve my ability to assess area properties remotely, and provide advice on things like taxes, whether properties are in floodplains, etc.

The MLS sales data shows that as well.Account Closed I totally agree with your assessment, there is a lot of fear mongering regarding the recession.

We are practicing more with the calculators and assessing deals but I'm sure there are plenty of things we haven't considered or encountered. 

In it I worked with one of the largest property manager's in Birmingham to grade all of the neighborhoods in the metro area on an A-F scale so investors can assess the level of risk with a particular property.

I am a Proper customer and I know that the coverage is more expensive, but it is very comprehensive.

Often times the assessor will show the % of the assessed value that the lands makes up.If the asking price is significantly less than what you calculated above, then I'd say you do some more due diligence and try to find a developer to send it to.Good luck!

This is the only way we assess ARV and we are pretty good at it.

Do you mean tax assessment maybe?

I'd have no problem asking someone to verify my assessment but confidence in my own due diligence builds stronger as I run the numbers and  continually evaluate myself.  

Then you can assess how quickly you can pay off the additional debt you would take on for down payment.