The cost to do this just comes out of the total profit margin. 

I’m exploring the option of selling these notes and would love to get your insights on a couple of key points:Pricing Expectations:How much of the total principal should I reasonably expect to receive when selling these notes?

Totally useless for making go/no-go decisions, just like the average-only market stats from RedFin & Zillow.Stay away from AI, demographic data, and average-only market data/stats if you want to "make a data driven decision towards purchase", they are all too broad/meaningless to actually help make that go/no-go decision.

I turned it into a 7 bed house.2 of the new rooms are super useful to an end buyer and would bring us to a total of 5 (which would comp very well).

The bigger the reserve the better, obviously, but generally most recommend a 3–6-month reserve.Makes sense, thank you!

Totally emotional questions but I tend to feel that paying off a primary residence earlier is better because you never know what the future holds for you and your income. 

I made the layout more user friendly, added a whole wall of closets in the main bedroom, totally gutted kitchen and bath.

After renovation rents would be 1900-2000$ so about 4,000$ total rent for both units.

If you are buying an SFR for 75k, put 175k into the deal (total cost is 250k) and it appraises for 220k, you are negative 30k before any loans are considered.

Therefore, Val was totally right to ask about the security situation.