This may slightly affect the types of financing options available, but if both applicants are well-qualified financially, you should still be able to secure competitive financing terms.

A drywall guy once told me that a quick way to calculate a whole house worth of work is to multiply the living sq footage by 3.5 then divide that by 48 sq ft ( 12 ft drywall ) and then multiply times per sheet cost.This is probably more applicable for new construction or full gut jobs.

Wait til we start talking about management software and call centers!

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You can use it to build a nice-looking store for your add-ons and it nicely integrates with most property management software, so that you can automate sending the store link to your guests

Quote from @Josh Weber: We use OwnerRez for property management software, RemoteLock to manage our Schlage Encode WIFI locks, and Honeywell Wi thermostats.

It turns out that coordinating engineers, marketing and sales to launch a software product is not crazy different from coordinating vendors and subs to "launch" a construction project.I will disagree with everyone who says that hiring subs yourself puts you at a pricing disadvantage vs. prices GCs get. 

@Henry Clark, not exactly applicable to your start of this post but in response to this last reply, do you think its better to build still than to buy existing?

Your strategy may work attracting good tenants, but be careful disregarding applications or denying the property to qualify individuals that are protected class.

"the borrower is not using rental income from the applicable property to qualify" - does borrower here refer to the seller applying for a new loan or the buyer of the subto deal?