Many times landlords rig apartments to pass inspection and then let repair items go all year long while getting the payment before fixing again for annual re-inspection.So if the tenant is month to month it is critical that you look at the apartments to see what work would be needed.The inspectors are very picky and you will get abated where section 8 will not pay you rent until the items are fixed.Many items wouldn't be fixed in a regular unit but section 8 list everything.

In looking for builders, I found a guy who is looking to break away from his previous cookie cutter builds with a couple big home building companies and go on his own to build customs and multifamilies for investors.  

It's a "chain" cutter, or if you're subject to puking when you get a whiff of what comes out call a plumber!

If the property is in a "cookie cutter" community you can use the recent sales of similar homes in the neighborhood.

I can't personally can't stand subdivisions in a box with cookie cutter house all the same almost touching with no yards or landscaping.

Our friend had this same shower put in (same cookie cutter bathroom) for $3,000 and that was cheap!

A lender only doing cookie cutter deals for people buying white picket fences really only needs to offer one (Freddie or Fannie), and overlays generally don't matter.

You need to separate yourself from the Cookie cutter apartment listings. -  Post one big ad on Craigslist per day with a lot of pics (10+) with an elaborate description of the property.  

These conforming multi-family properties are extremely predictable; everything is very "cookie cutter".

I'm in Youngstown, OH in a development with mostly similar, cookie-cutter, split-level homes and my neighbor's house sold at foreclosure in the midst of the recession for about $100k less than my house.