The other option is to modify your offer.If the deal is otherwise good and you're not financing with a USDA / FHA / VA loan (which would fail due to condition), ask your lender whether your loan would pass with the house in it's current condition.If it won't, consider an FHA 203K construction loan.If it will, reduce your offer to reflect the repairs that are needed.Otherwise, as @Jay Hinrichs says, NEXT!

Those differences in Real Estate taxes are reflected in very different property (and sale) values.Master a manageable area/town of say 10,000 properties, then expand your searches.

We hear chatter about layoffs but its not reflected in the overall numbers coming out for the Austin metro related to employment/unemployment.

When looking at Airbnb/Homeaway/Vrbo, the room calendar you see might not actually reflect the current blocks/bookings because of minimum stay requirements.

(lower census numbers from closed campus will be reflected in higher taxes)

If the value they present is not reflected in first three comparable sales...it probably isn't a good appraisal.

Schenectady has also done a great job revitalizing its downtown like Troy but prices don't reflect it yet.  

That is just a bad situation tenants are not authorized to arrange for unauthorized repairs.Also I am not totally sure on a short sale but normally if the garage door falls and shatters the windows before you close then you either have the seller restored the property to the condition it was at the time you made an offer or you negotiate the price to reflect you receiving damaged property.

If the seller services the loan themselves, their recordkeeping may not accurately reflect the balance owed or the last payment made.

With their disasterous withdrawal from buying properties and their write down of $548,000,000 they have a vested interest now in reducing Zestimates to more accurately reflect true pricing to try to convince their very upset investors and the SEC, that it's the market "cooling" not their previous attempt to manipulate the market.