So instead of searching for X bedrooms in X zip code within X price range, I sort of wish I could eliminate the price variable and just search for "xxx price per square foot" in zip code yyy.p.s.fwiw, I am technically "in".

You could lock your rate in and not be in a variable HELOC rate.

Rent ometer never saw the inside of the building it’s just a program that can’t calculate real world variables .

But the math works out and numbers don’t lie if you have factored in all your variables conservatively.

The tentative map takes about a year, but there's a lot of variables. 

Perhaps I can borrow against my variable life insurance policy at a sub-10% rate. 

,Zillow is typically wrong, it is a tool that doesn't take in to account many of the variables, I would put little weight into it. 

Maybe there are variables that I don't know but if you do decide to go ahead you can try25% goes to project manager which would be you and 75% to the investors..

The lower end demographic like to know what their monthly expenses are and having variable utilities is a negative to them.

I picked a good location - Baltimore, where I have supposedly enviable cash flow, $400-600 per property after PIMI, but before variable costs.