Even if you can’t afford lists, if you can get in the car and drive 4 dollars.

Understand a lot of improvements do not add dollar for dollar especially in 2-4 units because in a lot of markets (especially southern markets) there just are not a lot of comparable properties  for appraisers to use.

If you’re below, raise it up, to at least within a few 10’s of dollars of market.

After looking at hundreds of thousands of dollars in suspended passive losses, I'm planning to provide substantial services on my next house hack.

extra cash down saves you interest, but costs you the opportunity to make money with those dollars otherwise.

But between you paying down your mortgage, plus the tax write offs, plus market appreciation it sets you up for having tens of thousands of dollars in tax free gains when you eventually sell it.  

Even if you don't need that rental income, make sure you are using a lender that allows it to be used.And if you dump thousands of dollars into a property to improve the value....but that lender isn't using the ARV...then why even use them?  

Having said that, the probability that this happens is fairly low, $10 million dollar businesses don't just pop out of nowhere.

If that's 25 dollars or 300 that's entirely up to you provided you comply with the law.2) You could pull the equity out in a cash out refinance, and use the proceeds to purchase another property and keep both.

Just to give you an example of the type of thing you'd be potentially looking out for, if the community has a pool terrace planned and it's orientation in the new building would face directly towards your property, that could be a source of significant noise and disturbance for you/your tenants, and could make it much harder to sell your property once the new building is built and occupied.On the positive side, new apartment buildings cost millions of dollars to develop and build, and developers really only sink that much money into areas where they're forecasting rent growth and property appreciation for their investment.