If your trying to defend your initial offer, then I suggest quantifying those repairs with a contractor's estimate coupled with your inspection report.

No investors shouldn't just be a transaction or a number but have to be quantified for the time and return invested.My clients do not take offense to the analysis and respect the fact that I value my time as a broker and investor myself for the return I am seeking.

The rest of the stuff is easy to quantify because it's all numbers based.

And I think it boils down to a couple of things that are quantifiable and a couple that aren't so easy to quantify or make generalities about:1.)

At least then you’ll have an easy way to describe and quantify “plenty of assets” for a prospective lender.

Not trying to start a cash-flow vs appreciation war, just saying that for me appreciation is more difficult to quantify than rent, and when considering SF Bay Area investing I find it to be a valuable part of my analysis.Good luck!

you still need to show damages than the fun part is trying to collect.As for the penalty- unless it is spelled out in the lease - ie for every missed appoint there will be a $25 no show penalty- or directly show their were damages- it will be hard to quantify the amount of damage.  

Of course, the flip side of that is the appreciation potential but that can be hard to quantify.  

Terry,Well, I would try to quantify if there is much deferred maintenance.  

There is no easily quantifiable cost of money.