I imagine it's hard to tell from a burnt lump of plastic if the smoke detector was defective, the battery was defective, or if the battery had any juice left.Let's assume the smoke detector was operational, how does that stop a building from burning to the ground?

A remodel sounds to be like lower hanging fruit.

We purchased the property because the 3rd bedroom is a daylight basement (3 story townhouse) with an ideal space on the top floor to add a 4th bedroom (seemed to be low hanging fruit for a future refinance).

However, these properties won't be low hanging fruit. 

The juice wasn't worth the squeeze for me but I did not do a deep dive into it either.

I am located in the Charlotte area and would agree about the presence of our financial sector but also medical is a huge industry as well.If your outlook is 10 years then going with either option will prove fruitful.

Some of them are failing miserably and of course blaming everyone or everything else but themselvesYes, to us, it's obvious who is BS and who is not, but many investors want to be pitched the easy way so they sip that guru juice.

In my experience Loan to After Repair Value (LTARV) is most commonly used as an Underwriting metric to ensure "the juice is worth the squeeze", or in other words, to make sure the project is worth the investment.

Tevel produces fruit picking robots, they are basically AI driven drones, powered through a cord, work 24/7.

And we had enough juice that our title company would issue insurance right after we got the tax collector deed and recorded it..