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

But given our high cost city and sky rocketing interest rates, early and simple analysis of any property has so far resulted in negative cash flow. 

Additional streams of income:1) Have mortgage broker present at open house (and charge them "$5000"%) to pre-approve those who want it (but don't make that a requirement to bid).2) Sell the bidder list to other investorsI have not seen any such ads in my area and I'm wondering if it's because this system is not effective or is it because nobody is utilizing it?

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.

Again, I'm not local so I'm just taking every cost and push-back on progress at face value.It's $80 per door, per year, plus the one time inspection fee, which I was thinking was $180, but don't recall exactly right now. 

., replacement cost.

This mistake has cost me a boat load of money.

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.