With your background in finance you can start to sort out your comfort and enhance your criteria there.  

When I bid a home I spend at least an hour with the investor to understand basic taste such as material grade, creative enhancement opportunities that may exist in the asset and desired time line.

Assumption being of course is that they have additional loans to fund.For the finance geeks, I realize that paying the points upfront further enhances the rate of return, but I tried to keep this simple.

Equity: The addition will enhance the value of your home.

She stated that the role of politicians was to be civil servants and enhance the lives of their constituents. 

You are now playing the "other man's game" and ought to recognize that your training and skillset probably needs enhancement.

It only proves that we have to continue learning to enhance our businesses every day!

Credit Enhancements: A loan to provide improvements to the property.

It will give the extra mile of paying low taxes ( enhancing total return of the investment).Finally, after analyzing the investment, if you can really afford the negative cash flow, go for it.

A year and a half has gone bye and I realize this money is not going to last for my entire life if I don't start living very conservatively even with the investments that are made from within the trust, or enhancing my income.