Exact location, ease of management, vacancies, schools, future knowns etc are or can be applied also at times.

I have these basic figures locked in my head so when I identify sections in each home needing repair, it is simple to calculate in my head.Breaking up the project into these sections will aid in your ease of estimation while walking a potential project: Kitchen, baths, flooring, paint, windows and doors, interior doors, base/case, drywall, electrical, HVAC, plumbing, landscaping, roof, stucco/siding, and misc.

M2M benefits the landlord due to the ease of getting bad tenants out faster and plus if your having a whiny tenant who doesn't seem happy, you have the ability to give proper notice and get a better tenant. 

Those fees are taken off the top, before any profit is divided, just as the design fees should be.You are already in this too far to backtrack much (and, as you said, cause tension).

Do I sufficiently school up in the Chicago market and IL regulations and build a bit of a network here to start off, with the ease of seeing many properties first hand?

Hi There,As a newbie having listened to many national REI podcasts touting the ease of either a double-close or an assignment with title companies and later discovering that NYS is attorney-centric on these matters, I'd love to hear how veteran wholesalers in NY are best handling this.

Make sure it has eased edges...kind of distressed.

I don't see any problem calling a sale price the fair market value under its definition, when investors think they got a heck of a deal, it's usually still at FMV.Many plan administrators don't want real estate because it is not a liquid asset and accounting requires valuations, annually, sounds like they are trying to ease that burden, not complicate it.

The only way my parents will lose is if I can't pay $440/month, which I can pay with ease now when my W2 income is $70k, and with the future raises that will bring it to $110k area.

The ease and liquidity of mutual funds and ETFs is very compelling when compared to owning physical properties.