Whoever sold it to them sold off their parking spots, and mismanaged the association- which drove all the values down.While they were evaluated at 130ish, the last one sold for 40k.

My passion over the last several years has been to help people be successful in homeownership. 

I'm new to the game and have spent the last year or so learning as much as I can through BP and other reading materials.

I did just check my records and in the last 5 years we spent just over $6k for various repairs and supplies.

Last year I purchased a distressed property and spent the past year fixing it up.

It's changed in the last 5 years.

You may want to ask on the forum to see if any one has had any luck using a paid search database instead of going to a pi.  

I realize that many of the sales shown may not be viable comps to the subject property, but "if" the data is accurate it will give a trend of the neighborhood....IE....If I've got 5 sales in the same neighborhood in the last 12 months OF like kind and quality then I've got a trend line I can loosely base a starting point on...but IF the data in Zillow is NOT accurate in terms of the actual sale prices then it's worthless...so that's what I was getting at.

Write it up as a personal letter.When you do all that, then contact a local RE Agent to give you a list of all the houses in that neighborhood that have sold in the last 5 years with all cash.

Last year the Washington Post said it was about 16,000.