This is where soft skills play such a big part in land lording. 

Soft guess would put you around 12 percent and 2 points on a verified ARV deal right for a first-time flipper.

Ronnie from Bass River Properties used to run it.

This of course is not a RM mess....it’s a relative who feels entitled mess....and an owner (You) being too soft issue.  

These guys go soft in the head and then will them to their thoroughly middle-class-minded children, who typically want nothing to do with home maintenance and think their daddy was stupid for getting his hands dirty.

Turns out there is a large leak in the roof, lots of soft spots, and the roof is original 1959. 

It'll get worse since it is really hard to build a cheap (Class <B-) due to soft costs which in Portland are pusing $25K/unit, so you'll see more expensive places, while the cheap stock stays pretty slow growth.Property Type 3: Hands-off Sponsors  "We’ve found that assets with hands-off sponsors are simply not doing as well as assets that have aggressive sponsors"That's a constant.

Definitely trying to tread as softly yet strongly as possible.

Things like more customers, cost of labor, maintaining a property, keeping in line with govt and soft costs?

I am paying for the Land, soft cost and horizontal costs from my own money so where does the cash to close come from.