One of the challenges in nailing down a price per foot right now is two fold - everyone has a different idea of the "cost" to build - some will just include the hard number, others provide the all inclusive (demo to doorbell) soft and hard costs - everything excluding land, closing and financing costs.

@Jennifer Bailey you just hit the nail on the head. 2-4 units can be profitable, but typically you have to self manage them in order to make the numbers work.

There are other factors that come into play also during a wind mitigation survey - age of roof, shape of the roof, how the roof was framed, nails used etc.3.

Also, practically nobody in the world has mastered the fundamentals because every time we think we have it nailed down a new situation/crisis happens which shapes our thinking in a new way.

@Ari Bauer, nailed it. 

George w hit the nail on the head.

After looking more into it and talking to my lender, you nailed it right on the head.

Hello Whitney, I think everyone has hit the nail on the head about getting started.

That's like saying, "I only use 1-1/2" nails. 

I think everything you mentioned @Chris Seveney about the risks with value, condition, borrower difficulties, and potential lien/title issues nailed it.