It does not matter whether you are starting a real estate business, restaurant, car wash, or amazon commerce business - the lender will first look at you and your partner and how much skin you have in the game, your experience and the risk of the loan not getting paid. 

If it is a cold dark shell, we would do $60-65 psf. 

Potential Equity is not skin in the game. 

Should I stain these doors and hardwood floors a dark expresso color, or lighten them, or just leave them alone?

Clusters of dark blue areas (such as Queen Creek, Buckeye-Goodyear, area between Surprise and Anthem) may indicate the path of progress happened (or is still happening in these areas), and we might be able to assume the path of progress could continue in these directions.Do you find this kind of information helpful at all?

We introduced a new color scheme for our new construction homes.Once the exterior paint was finished, we realized that we strongly disliked the color we chose for the garage door.Easy fix, spend the money to repaint the garage door and update the color package for future homes.Hiccups like this happen every day in this industry.

Of course, YMMV.I would definitely get a good look at the neighborhood around your possbile purchase, and see if you think a nurse would feel comfortable finishing a shift and coming from the hospital to your quadplex alone and in the dark.

We have purchased notes for as little as $960.00 and as much as $50K, but for the average they have been around $15-20K each... all of those having made an average return of 150% in an average return time of 3-6 months...I'll take that over a kick in the pants and shot in the dark any day.M

When all was said and done, the design firm cost me north of $100K in losses , some of which was caused by the drawn out design process resulting from being in the dark due to the forgery.

Hi there, this is normal practice however you should not be in the dark.