I'm interested to learn more about research tools that people use. I've just found out about Real Estate Investar (http://www.***************************/ME2/Default.asp) which I know has been mentioned here a couple of times. Just wondering if there's any competitors to real estate investar that others know about in terms of sophisticated search tools and integrated valuations.
I've heard on some other sites some compliants about Investar's valuations (supplied by APM), has anyone else had this issue. I've seen through one of their webinars where they run through an example of using a "discount to market strategy" they run the search pull something up at discount to median, run the val and the val is like 5%-10% higher than the listing price because the vendor is "motivated". Can it really be that simple or can the valuations be off because of other property specific issues that aren't that apparent?
I've heard on some other sites some compliants about Investar's valuations (supplied by APM), has anyone else had this issue. I've seen through one of their webinars where they run through an example of using a "discount to market strategy" they run the search pull something up at discount to median, run the val and the val is like 5%-10% higher than the listing price because the vendor is "motivated". Can it really be that simple or can the valuations be off because of other property specific issues that aren't that apparent?
