You just need to dig in the data and find a good deal.

We visited the house multiple times before it was leased to ensure everything was in working condition,  got the house professionally cleaned.

There are several data providers that sell such data. 

I'm also moving into data analyst role so Itll all be remote. 

Not super helpful data, because it depends on price point there are going to be more cash transactions in a market where houses are $100k vs a market where they are $300k. 

So you and your agent need to look at the data for comparable pending and (very) recently sold homes, as well as whatever active homes may be available - because solds and pending aside, the value of this prospective home will be comparatively lower if there are 15 similar homes on the market for buyers to look at compared to if there are just one, two, or zero other homes like this for buyers.And I know it's tough with HUD homes because they don't take escalators, but in the end, armed with your market analysis data, you need to bid your 'walk away' price, meaning that if you bid a dollar under what it goes for you'd be OK with not getting it, rather than kicking yourself and wishing you had bid a dollar more.

When your friend told you that Wells Fargo asked her for a $1,000,000 deposit into a Wells Fargo checking account in exchange for doing her jumbo refinance, that's what we're talking about when we say "general ease of availability" -- asking someone for a $1,000,000 deposit to do their refi would be NOT "generally easy and available" for most people (lol).It is not yet captured in any publicly facing data, but I'm seeing indications that jumbo may right now be turning the other direction.https://www.mba.org/news-resea...

I recently came across a website that analyzes a property’s data related to Airbnb use and traditional rental called MashVisor.

There are apps that look at the same data for a fee.

My Team knows what I want to accomplish (because I told them), so there's nowhere for me to hide from their frequent, persistent check-ins to ensure I'm making progress.And that's only fair, because that's exactly what I'm going to do to/for them with regard to their goals!