I've been in the commercial valuation industry for the past 5 years appraising office, industrial, and multifamily buildings nationally for institutional investors.

With that said, production ready tools are typically 10-20 years behind what has been demonstrated at research institutes.

But some do.I discovered the ARV being between $250k to about 260k for the subject property give or take.

When I am brokering, I have virtually no risk of my own capital and the money is coming from institutional sources.

And yet, most investors, big and small, individual to institutional, tend to only focus on one thing: the monthly management fee.

However, I discovered that Anaheim isn't allowing new short-term rentals and that the strict regulations in California make arbitrage nearly impossible.I then came across the assignment of contracts strategy and thought it could be a good way to generate income.

Your financial activities are essentially outsourced to another institution, which may have its own policies and vulnerabilities.What Can You Do?

I would institute RUBS for the water and make getting the power split up a priority.

He had to tear out the entire chimney chase on the roof, where he discovered a rotted area that was letting the bats in. 

Went through 2 iterations of our plan with an architect only to discover it cost too much to build.Earlier this year we looked into a container home only to be shot down by the zoning commission.Construction costs have come down since last year so now we're looking at a very small stick-built cabin.