Square ft/# of bedrooms & bathrooms/proximity to...

When we find a motivated seller and agree upon a price and signing the contract, do I physically give them $100 to $500 in earnest money while I'm locking up their property for 40 days or do I give it to the lawyer office who does the title search?

With tons of schools here, and the proximity of this unit to downtown, rental rates will only creep up year after year.

Verify the tenants are paying tenants versus physical occupancy. 

I was more so saying that whatever decision that is made, is made with the consideration of one's available resources, of which the most important are time, money, experience, and supporting staff (even if that's just a friend of family in close proximity of the property).

It is 75% a people business and 25% about the physical real estate.

All I can say is the more spread out your buildings are the harder it is to physically get to them and time is money.. spending it driving between several SFH miles apart makes no sense to me..

Based on what I'm seeing, I'd comp it out at about $1.06 M, perhaps even less based on its proximity to the freeway.  

Proximity to work is everything, imo.

If the buildings are in such close proximity to the tennis courts I would be very hesitant to put any kind of entertainment in courtyard because of noise issues I would simply rip it out and loom it.