I’m not going to go into detail here as to what exactly happened bc I don’t want to help her improve her process but you can message me privately if interested and happy to tell you.

@Jacolby Tillmanif you're trying to wholesale i'd focus on off marketor for on market, just buy, close, and then improve and sell

Clean soils, no grade challenges, no power lines or utilities running through the property, no street improvements (curbs, gutters, sidewalks, new lanes, streetlights),etc.

There are even grants the government gives to improve/rebuild these homes.

To get a great bang for your buck when it comes to appraisals, you'll want to focus on making cost-effective upgrades and improvements that will have a big impact on the overall value of the property.

They will often want a new building constructed and building today with labor and materials is very expensive versus retrofitting existing building.When I buy value add vacant buildings the goal is to double the return on investment within a 3 year period.So if I can use the existing building and retrofit to same concept ( example previous burger inc. but now Whataburger wants to come in ) then not as much tenant improvements to convert.So if rent 20 a foot for 5,000 ft that is 100k NOI NNN a year. 7 cap value is about a 1,400,000 stabilized valueSo if I buy it for 400k and have 300k in it more 700k to get new tenant in the value is then around 1,400,000 based on NNN 20 a foot and a 7 cap rate exit value.If you want a premium price then you would need to sell to an end user tenant ( regional or national in nature) that wants to buy the building and put their concept in there.

Then, on top of all that, you just controlled or improved some real estate with it.

My favorite part is that we can take the percentage of the structures assessed value (assessed improvements value / assessed total value [including land] = Percentage) and the play our purchase price by the percentage to get our depreciable basis (not including acquisition/closing costs, of course).

As elections get closer we will likely see consumer confidence start to become more uncertain due to the political climate and then resume again after elections are finalized.ibuyers and hedge funds are also ramping up acquisitions which is further pushing demand and lack of affordability.If/when the Feds do lower rates we will see a temporary improvement in affordability, however we do expect that small window to close quickly as lower rates will bring a lot of pent up demand back into the market which will push home values higher and cause affordability to worsen.With all factors considered here in the local Las Vegas and Henderson market we are encouraging buyers to buy sooner rather than later while they can get lower prices and seller concessions and then if needed refi later when rates come down and they have more equity.

Calculating the depreciation base, typically guided by a CPA, is the primary complexity.Except figuring out the depreciation base to use (what amount from the total acquisition cost goes for land and can’t be depreciated, and how much goes for the building/improvements to be used in the segregation and depreciation calculations, and even that should be an easy answer to figure out or get from your CPA), the rest is simple stuff your CPA will not know anyway (thus him sending you the “survey”) like, the sqft of the house, the length of the fence and if wood/iron/brick, how many ceiling fans in the house, how many cars garage, if carpet or tile in what room, etc.