Just the general concept of tweaking the numbers, however you want to color it.

Don't tweak and spin things to justify it being a good investment..... you are rationalizing yourself into making it a good investment, when its not.

Banks underwrite based on ratios, but their are a lot of sophisticated tweaks to make sure are in place with your original mortgage to ensure you're flexible & in the best position to continue to buy property.Would be happy to discuss further over DM.

I’d heard 0.5%-1% was a good conservative estimate  3) I’ll try to tweak a bit to make it easier to see impact of inputs.  

Another option when starting out is to look at hiring a renovation consultant, who will help you think through affordable layout tweaks that can be made, and simple things to add value.

If it is relatively good as is and you are planning on doing tweaks, any gain will be primarily differences in appraisers.

The appreciation in this town since we bought it makes it unlikely that we would be able/willing to purchase there again although we do not see living there in the future.Rent vs. sell calculators that I look at swing the decision based on how I tweak numbers re: PM (currently 0%) vacancy and maintenance. 

A well-crafted lease and checklists for established procedures (marketing, screening, lease signing, inspections, move-out, turnovers) that you do the same each time take a lot of effort and time to develop, but once you have them in place you can rely on them to take care of 80%-90% of the work for you, with only minimal tweaks needed now and then.A really good businesses with consistent policies and procedures could run without us at the helm for a week or a month, which is good if you want to enjoy vacation/time-off.   

For example, I would tell them I am going to offer a new lease in June (this allows you to tweak the lease if you don't like specific things) and at this time bump the rent.

Let me tweak it and you'll understand #4 better.Your gain is determined by the difference between your adjusted cost basis and your net sale (the sales price minus closing costs.