I imagine "Loan Origination" and anything paid to the bank itself can be negotiated but I am being quoted different amounts and line items are labeled differently in each quote (e.g.

I imagine that a 3 day minimum for a Saturday would eliminate weekend splitting almost all of the time, aside from the odd Saturday through Tuesday booking.

I imagine there are rules around that in your area.

Imagine how quickly the "typical' U.S. family could own a home with no debt if three generations lived together and paid one home off instead of renting three? 

But imagine the payment slightly increases each time you draw more from the renovation funds

I can't imagine your plumbing bills over trying to find the source of this mysterious odor with disappears when plumbers show up.My question would be how difficult would it be to find a replacement tenant if you were to release him from his lease?

@Nathan Gesner - Yeah, and imagine if USPS used that same argument for email addresses when that came out?

I can't imagine maintenance on brand new tiny homes would cost much, especially if you did composting toilets and rerouted any grey water to a garden or something you'd have no plumbing to worry about. 

Originally posted by Adrian Stamer:How do I get the appraisers to actually use the income appraisal method and stop doing a market appraisal for my multi familiesIf you're getting an appraisal based on a lender requirement, you have no say -- the lender wants substantiation of the value and they'll determine how to base that value (though for larger multi-family properties, I imagine it will typically be income based).If you're hiring the appraiser for your own purposes, just tell them that you want the value based on income, and they should be happy to include that. 

I look at every single item in the pro forma and imagine that it is complete BS, and see if I can challenge it.