It is worth the extra money so you can get on the market sooner.

If you have good contractor estimating your rehab costs you'll have a better picture of what the costs will be, add a little for buffer and buy low enough and you should still make money even with extra expenses or holding costs.

Those things are all over the place and don't seem to correlate at all with actual value.Also, I would heavily weight any calculation I did with the remaining data to strongly favor the comps you get from the real estate agent.

Zillow compiles their data from several different sources, and it is not always the most accurate data.In reference to a good beginning offer, that will depend on your exit strategy.

I have my present home that I am putting $5,000.00 extra amonth in pricnipal.

What would I do with an extra $500 or even $5,000 a month in cashflow?

With a $650 mortgage (which I'm not sure that's accurate with a 52K note) then most of the extra $200 you were factoring as cash flow will get eaten up in maintenance and vacancy.

Do any of you use a database program or XL spreadsheet type of thing to keep all your data straight?

This will give you a rough estimate of their payoff and the extra fees involved in a preforeclosure.

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