The costs & codes just seemed to be too high/stringent to make it viable.Meanwhile I have a friend in Roanoke Virginia who has made a killing using your idea.

But none of my rental basements are near that size - the biggest is just over 600 sq ft. 10K might be high; measure the perimeter wall lengths and multiply the total by the numbers I supplied earlier to see if your quotes make sense.

I've been in professional training for over 17 years so I would love to work with ANY guru RE education group to do a real academic, statistical analysis on their materials and how to measure success.

While U.S. banks try to comply with stringent banking standards effective in January of 2013, most of them won’t be reissuing new commercial debt.

Even with a friend as a partner, it will be better to have this explicitly stated upfront in the deal as a CYA measure if nothing else

The paper bill is just a measurement of currency.

If risk can be measured by loss, who stands to lose more?

My opinion on the best way to measure this is my running your numbers on the property and decide if you're happy with the cash-flow and rates of return.Chris Clothier is right about the creditability of the provider you're working with, as well as the rest of their team.

Add on top of that figuring out good yardsticks to measure a properties potential and I think I'll have a good start.My big question is...I only have about 5k in saving right now so it would take a long time to be able to save up the 20 - 30k for a 20% down payment.

I gave him the measurements and his guys loaded the finished product into my trailer for less than half the price of custom installs.