To get even closer at the value of yours find the average price per square foot of comparable properties and use that number times your square footage.

Just get a WDO inspection prior to buying and keep a good pest control company out there and you'll be (mostly) fine.

Would you:1) Rent it out.2) Sell it and buy a rental house closer to home to manage.3) Sell it and buy a few condos closer to home to manage.We could on $250K in mortgages on new properties and be able cover the payments with no rental income.Thanks for helping out a newbie! 

Inspections are slow because the inspectors are swamped .

If the home meets that qualification, then I usually run the true numbers through the rental property calculator to get a closer idea of the real cost and benefits.Using this method if I was interested in a house that cost $52K, it'd have to be rentable at $520/month.

Beaverton is too far for me to travel to mentor, but it you were closer I am open to it.

How could your contractor or partner have missed that on their inspection? 

If you want to PM me or post where you're located I may have a closer referral as well. 

I'm looking to get into wholesaling but I am confused on a few thingsThe first thing is how do i estimate repair costs when inspecting a home?

The last 2 of the 5, they are decent positive cashflow currently with the crazy jump in rental rates, but from 2008-2015 i barely got by with them making less than $40/month in cashflow on them, but they have appreciated a decent amount and would net me about 200-225k in cash if i was to sell them now with the current market values, so i have thought about selling them and purchasing properties closer to my home now, since im no longer in the military moving as much.