Rent - taxes - insurance - utilities - maintenance.That's a good place to start.

Credit cards to get people to spend as much as possible on china plastic to pump the consumerism market..Auto loans to pump the auto industry.. 

I know people have done this on taskrabbit - the 'taskers' mainly do a lot of auto insurance photo-related gigs on there and so their 'taskers' would likely be able to take photos of a property/give advice on an area.

If no mortgage payments have been made since 2009 I would pad the payoff on the first by ~$650,000 plus taxes and insurance.

Also, the VA loan doesn't have mortgage insurance at all.

Cost of flood insurance would be a factor.What kinds of numbers can you offer on a property?

You just haven't gone to Kinko's to make it pretty and you might not have done graphs, which I do because I like to see stuff visually.You will also need to buy it with an assement, and if the bank asks it (which it almost always will) make repairs and etcetera to secure their investment.They also might make you get some types of insurance, hold stuff in escrow.

Also find a real estate agent that IS an investor and have them set you up with auto listings for the type of product you're interested in.

Usually there is title insurance in place to help with these matters.

and that is with outdated numbers for taxes and insurance.