Howdy again mattifer! Well the huge number of houses is because we went nuts with it because most agents either specialized in doing BPO's or selling homes but no one did both because they were both full time careers.

But we did both. We worked 14 to 17 hours a day 365 days a year, literally no days off and we did that for ten years before we took a full day off.
Doing the BPO's gave us a huge advantage because we were doing the home valuations at the rate of 30 to 50 per week. We only used the MLS but for repair estimates it was rough estimates at first but then after constantly working with rehabb contrators then we knew the costs of everything so we became super accurate in a year or two.

It's all in the MLS comps and what sold in the neighborhood, that's all we used or needed. We got so good after doing thousands of them that we didn't even need to run comps to have a pretty accurate read once we learned the basics of the home and location but with running comps, unless it was something very unusual for the area, we'd know in 10 to 30 minutes and would nail the actual price that it would sell for within a couple hundred dollars.

We became highly sought after by the banks. We retired from it, unfortunately, at the end of 2015 so just over 3 years. I loved it, it was my dream career but Mrs. J said she had to quit or it was going to kill her. And we DID watch Realtors around us dropping like flies, most from heart attacks because of the incredible stress. The constant pressure, deadlines, threats of lawsuits, on and on, was very taxing. Not to mention no time off ever. lol.