Go to open houses in the neighborhood to assess prices, view finishes. 

I have buyers that will literally buy anything as long the numbers makes sense, but as you know we get flooded with all kinds of stuff that waste time because no one really knows how to properly assess a property. 

If "assessment" means a tax assessors valuation then that may or may not have anything to do with market value. 

When budgeting your payroll tax on your share of the salary, remember to consider the social security portion of FICA is assessed on the first $117,000 of earned income.

The tax assessed value is 40k, he is asking 55K.

Dawn do you have the same ability to assess issues and offer remedies as a professionally licensed home inspector?

I have been seeing houses with agents sparingly for the last few months to gain experience assessing repairs.

Need a lot more info to give you a proper assessment, but the seller (or broker) is clearly understating expenses.

If I buy and hold, I want as many fixed costs as possible- you never know when the condo fees increase, special assessments, etc.  

I have been following sale and creating my own databases of comps with all property details, such as beds, baths, total rooms, lot size, garages or not, and assessed values and sale prices of all sold homes in Saugus.