The damage it left on the trim and one of the doors is easy to quantify.

.#5 Practice, Practice, PracticeWalkthrough potential rehab properties (or find properties virtually online) and practice creating detailed scopes of work, quantifying repairs and estimating rehab costs for the projects.

This will help you to quantify failures or risk management along with the Cash flow side, to evaluate the deal.

Because I'm not sure how to quantify the work I have done thus far.

(which I know is corny) But Dave has said a million times to callers with similar circumstances that the one thing you are not quantifying is risk.

May be I should...I mean, if you empty out a trash cart to sort the content for 30 minutes how would you quantify that "cost"?

It would be cool to quantify an estimate of how good each popular area is and to potentially discover areas that not many people are looking at yet but are ripe for the picking.

@Jason MonacoSuccess.... depends on how you quantify it.

The idiot land lord in a C class market could have had two tenants with 800 fico scores, but she didn't even ask for a co signer...If Group B just seems like a better group, try to quantify why. 

I mean, that is a lot of money, I would expect some real hard quantifiable services.