Summarize the merits/risks/drawbacks of the deal for both seller & buyer:What is the current income, current value, terms of existing mortgage, optimal income, optimal value etc?

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But just to summarize your post, are you saying that investors should be trying to pinpoint these things so that they can provide further information to a structural engineer?

To add to it:Make a nice spreadsheet of EVERYTHING finance related to the property you're either considering or a hypothetical in the area.Transfer the highlights and make a simple PowerPoint to summarize.   

That is a long and deep answer that I could best summarize an answer with "technology."

I think if I were to find & summarize these data myself, it will probably take hours.

Micah - I think others have summarized well.

That decreased friction comes in the form of no hearing and local government approval.Less red tape doesn’t mean no red tape…What becomes clear after adding all of the eligibility requirements is that not many parcels qualify for SB9 and even fewer make sense as an SB9 candidate.To avoid boring you with a breakdown of each eligible category, I’ll summarize here.

To help, I figured I would summarize all of the scenarios we considered (largely based on the comments in this thread) and their pro's and con's.

I can summarize all 3 questions with one answer: as a new investor, you need someone with you who has done the same thing many times in the past.