Depending on were it is, a dock permit isworth more than its weight in gold.

Wile being unethical may be heavily over weighted in wholesaling, it is certainly not limited to that. 

@Daniel Dietz - This is the first time I've heard someone mention a weighting of depreciation recapture in the first year when utilizing an installment sale.

A good property management company is worth their weight in gold.

Imagine a gym that would only charge it's members based on the amount of weight they lost.

So a better metric IMO would be to weight the outcome with the % gain in value by the flip.

What is the way to do this so it's 100% safe to support weight?

Or hearing it but not giving it too much weight. 

I'm satisfied with what I have now because I'm pretty heavily weighted in directly owned properties.

The smart investor considers ROI, Time to Deal, Ease Of Deal, Set-up Effort Per Deal, Continuous Effort Per DealTime Invested Per Deal and others.I call these "the decision factors".When you take all these into account you can write up an equation where you assign a "weight" to each of these decision factors.