As your portfolio grows, your expenses will trend more toward the statistical average of 45% to 50%.

Your card should give your VITAL STATISTICS/CONTACT INFORMATION, only!

Welcome to the new world, it's called verification---something being taken quite seriously these days (in the wake of the national statistics on foreclosures and loan buyback issues that flatlined 60+ lenders)...Your past full doc experiences are now irrelevent---the game has new rules...

I was nearly on Property Ladder early last year, and know a home inspector who actually *was* on an episode here in Orlando... but he was actually used as a potential 'buyer' pointing a couple of flaws as he walked through the home.Maybe they could try a disclaimer before and after the shows: "Statistics, Balance Sheets, and Profits may appear closer to ideal than reality.

And I'd say 9 out of 10 statistics are pulled out of nowhere.

Probably can't be measured in pure $$ but will make living there more enjoyable.Adding a bath is IMO (and statistically proven) a moneymaker, particularly if you can do most/all work yourself, partiuclarly the "finish" like tiling, because it's very labor intensive.IIRC single bath houses have been considered "technologically" obsolete since the early '80 by the Amer.

So far, to overcome this obstacle, I have found a lot of spreadsheets that will give me a lot of statistics.

Someone must make up those statistics!

However, there are a lot of models in economics (and statistics in general) that work even though one can't quite tease out the logic behind the numbers.

Statistically speaking, you are dealing with a narrow set of circumstances that are significantly important above a certain number of rentals.