On the second part about being fair-- nothing creates a better working environment then a fair customer and nice customer.

They use the same imagery, but Google Earth is a much more robust environment that gives you tons of additional information.One advantage of using Google Earth would be the ability to pull in more than one vendor's data for the same home, on a single map.  

If we take it back, we will rehab as two unit rental ($1400/month) if allowed by city, or rehab to single unit and relist for ~$89,900Is your auction environment one you can depend on to generate interest?  

That would help generate more ideas based on the local environment.

Strategies that have absolutes are often blind to their ever changing environment, like the rust belt states that never changed their main economical source of income from manufacturing.If an area is declining I would want to sell and get into an area that is increasing.

I am trying to read all of the source documents as well to get a better understanding of the area's regulatory environment.

For investors like Account Closed, they are willing to put in the work do value-add & repositioning, so they get rewarded by going the extra miles.Investors are just organisms adapting to different environments, if I was living in the fly over states no appreciation, my only chance of building equity is loan principle pay down, I would need and demand a much higher cash.

The USC campus is great, but once you go off campus it is a different environment.

As a fellow NWesterner, I suggest you look at other markets, further east, like the Midwest, and some in the Southeast if you want to find true cash flowing markets in today's environment.

Very different from an environment where nationwide what you charge for rent is what you are told.Despite it being a free market, this does not mean however that in some nooks of the market such as New York, California etc., you won't experience rent controls and attempts by the government to regulate rent in certain areas due to the housing affordability crises experienced in those areas.Despite the US claiming to be a free market for instance, some mergers of companies in the market place often have to pass regulatory approval -- to prevent excessive concentration of market power in the hands of a few firms that can result in predatory activities that can prevail in such an environment.