Have copies of the relevant code books for your areas and know what they say?  

But I do have a relevant example.At a local tax auction a few months ago, a property, vacant and abandoned, came up at a decent price. 

I want to attempt to rebuild the mailer/letter into an email format with the ability of the recipient to "click" to a landing page -  Like this, but relevant to the Investor. 

So if some folks recommend allocating 100 percent of relevant closing costs and improvements made prior to being placed into service to dwelling structure versus allocating part to land and part to the dwelling structure, are they just more aggressively interpreting the regs?  

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I think I have all the relevant information I've compiled from the county clerk, but can't seem to find the property anywhere. 

IF your agreement was in fact for a specific term, and proper in meeting all legal requirements for your locale, then it would seem they owe the entire amount for the term of the lease...the fact they only paid 8 out of 12 payments on schedule would not seem relevant.

If not, offer less.All the stuff about tax assessments and appraisals are less relevant.

Analyze every single house in that market, then do that again.This will help you identify typical houses, prices, rent ratios, tax rates for different parts of town.It will also help you to understand if a market you thought would be of interest is in fact relevant for you.Now that you know what is typical in your market, keep on monitoring and start noticing the things that are a-typical, That's where all the interesting stuff happens.

Good afternoon BP! I'm reading more now than I ever have, trying to get myself in the best place possible to start my 1st Real Estate venture. My Road map is almost complete but I wanted to see what the community says...