Conversely a business could do 500,000 in sales and have a net profit of 220,000 before taxes each year.The biggest component when I look at buying a business is that if it's a job or an investment??

Somewhere on the forums someone suggested looking at the major components of a property such as roof, appliances etc.  

If you want to get into the nitty gritty of depreciation that improvement value is actually made up of building components, land improvements and tangible personal property.

The shipping container is going to add another component of complexity to the process, design, engineering.

You need to understand the basic math and components that go into analyzing a property before worrying about using a calculator.  

Note that this condition does not require the loan to be fully amortizing, meaning that a balloon payment can be a component of a one-property exclusion loan.

There was a comp on one of the appraisals with the same model as our house that was 500 square feet smaller than ours and the appraisal came back on our house with a lower value than that home.  

I ran a "check this price"comp on zillow then bounced it off a few other websites and it averaged about 100k but I trust you guys.

This is much easier said than done as the proper way to depreciate the property is to have a cost segregation study done on the property to break out the total cost between the land value, building components, land improvements and tangible personal property.

So there's a little bit of a speculative component in any "hot" market.