It takes a lot of discretion, to "interpret" a market, neighborhood, criteria, condition, etc.. to determine ARVTo answer your question: definitely a skill you can learn yourself, but until you do, a local Realtor would be the best bet for ARVs.

Your initial conversations and interviews are a great testing ground for their communication skills.

If you are super skillful and know how to race indy cars you can get where you want to go faster with more leverage, but you can also crash and burn if you're not skillful. 

They did all that was desired and have the staff with a high level of skills so things did not go wrong on my project.Kirk Kitchin

The industry is very difficult; you need skills to survive/succeed.

My skills are still very basic, I've helped my brother paint cabinets and do some flooring work.

It takes skill.  

manual labor-intensive jobs that have rendered me unable to work for the present moment (for the last year and a half), and while I have been reading and learning as much as I can about real estate, the fact of the matter is that this is a new skill that I am learning myself.

These decisions depend on your ability to manage the project or person overseeing your project, based on time availability skill level or combo of both.

There are power points that almost every career has: integrity, initiative, ingenuity, passion, enterprise, creativity, optimism, reliability, resiliency, team work, leadership, persistence and tenacity, As a newbie, I am choosing to spend a lot of time on my investing and real estate education building the skills necessary for me to be successful.