It may cost you a few hundred dollars, but with a home inspection report and a written estimate (preferably three), you will have third-party support quantifying the cost of repair.BTW, is this a two story home?

But subjective factors like the appearance of a neighborhood is much harder to quantify.

That is extremely difficult to quantify, but what I know is this -- countless millions (if not hundreds millions) of dollars in business happens as a result of BiggerPockets.

You mentioned 2 things that caught my attention. 1) You can get great deals (I'm assuming you can qualify/quantify a good deal) 2) You have excellent credit in Canada, can you not take a line of credit from Canada to finance and then refi in the US after seasoning with solid rents?

We got out of the stock market in January of 2000 before the crash in April of that year...we didn't buy into the San diego housing market in 2004 feeling that it didn't have long til it went sideways...the problem with that was timing...isn't everything...the stock market thing was obvious to me anyway...the housing thing made sense to me but I missed the timing by years...when it finally fell apart...it happened EXACTLY as I had been expecting for years...the other problem is I don't always know WHY I know something...and that is a a real problem...that being said is there a way to start quantifying these things I know so that I can be a little more in tune with the markets or do you use certain indicators that just help show where a markets is in the cycle?

From an innovation standpoint, we will no longer be the greatest nation on the planet in a few years, and the economic success of this country will reflect that...In fact, if you quantify innovation as a percentage of GDP, I'd guess we no longer are the most innovative country on the planet...

When you say rent is on higher side, can you quantify on what basis you are making that conclusion?

I am very thankful to have the support I have and if your parents are looking to support you this way, show the initiative and quantify your ideas.

Saying that one can quantify it to two decimal places is complete nonsense.

Our inability to come to an agreement on how our partnership should be divided has led to a standstill on construction.Does anyone have experience or advice on how to quantify the contributions of each partner and make sure each gets a fair share?