The wide variation in pricing vs occupancy estimate is throwing me off.

A variation to bank financing for the amount of the balloon payment would be to finance as much equity out of the property as possible.

Or they get a fixed rate mortgage which has to be renewed (not exactly the same as a refi) every 5 years.There are lots of variations on this theme.

Additionally the short term variations matter a lot more in terms of timing the marketMy advice to you is this.

Everybody has a different idea of the variations of the color "green" and there are a million shades.

When digging through the date and trying to answer such, one is going to have to look at a compilation of markets/ states/ regions and such over vary long time scales to get past impactors of time be it market variations like '08' collapse or various wars etc., to get too the data to answer such.

There might not be an overall economic 'crash' as there was in 2007 but we will certainly see a variation in returns dependent on the asset class and geographic markets.

Qanats are largely insensitive to the levels of precipitation, delivering a flow with only gradual variations from wet to dry years.

The buyer can walk away with simply losing his option fee or he can choose to exercise the option.Options are like Ice Cream, there are at least 37 variations.

Brennen,Welcome to BP.I was an analyst and project manager for some of the biggest home flippers in California for 6 years, what you are trying to do isn't really possible, the best way to set a CapEx number is to look at photos and make an estimate based on the photos, the variation based on year built and condition are huge and if you are trying to use a base per sf number you are going to miss out on some of the best deals.