IMHO you are allowing yourself to be led down the garden path.

Jay Hassey , if you are looking for a well established landscaper for quotes or design/ideas contact me.

     Most of the folks out this way file their taxes with a profession as "landscaper" with the IRS, for purposes of qualifying for a loan, when they grow weed.  

Hi BPs, Fortune brought me a motivated seller with a nonconforming garden unit, some may say illegal unit.

But you're gonna have to pay for landscaping, college kids aren't cutting the grass.

That should give you pause.On the expenses, water is not 4x a SFR for a four plex - more like probably 2-2.5x because there's generally less landscaping per resident and the occupants per dwelling unit is generally less in an apt.And, your trash is way low.

.), however, a lot of the other information should be fairly east to obtain like the real estate taxes, insurance (call several brokers), landscaping/snow removal (call local investors to find out who they use).Your best bet is finding someone local to your market and speaking to them what will be a good deal. 

As a DC transplant, that gives me much needed perspective on the RE landscape here.

Usually you look for bad landscaping/overgrown lawn, notices on door, ect.

Let's stop Washington from becoming the overdeveloped landscape that so much of California has become and reinvent housing standards for all Americans.