They're going to take a DSCR approach and we've found commercial lenders to be exceedingly more conservative on their estimates.

I agree with the local experts, it's not usually a big deal, but I've seen some pretty high estimates, but normally they're $500-2k jobs at most and they shouldn't hold up the deal, like James said, but the buyer will have to assume the violations if the seller is not fixing them before hand.

Obviously been a while since you've seen that house, but how much in repairs do you estimate for a place like that? 

They put a property up on the market, put the taxes, insurance, and utilities on there, subtract an estimate for the mortgage and then say this property is a "cash cow!"

. :)*I'd estimate moreso between $195-$250/SF to build, depending on finishes.

In many cases estimating damages is difficult, here luckily it looks to be really straight forward BETTER than most cases.

Also, Commissions are a shown on the estimated closing statement from the escrow company. 

You arent going to estimate anything from a video .

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I've seen some logical points made that under estimating Cap Ex may not be realized until many years later when a few larger than expected expenses eat up years of "cash flow".