I got good at estimating renovation costs by making an initial estimate based on photos/walkthrough, drawing up a model like you see here, then once the project is finished, go to accounting, get the actual expense report for that property, and update the model.

There is an art to drawing out the right price and not giving away all your profit.

Nine  states are COMMUNITY PROPERTY STATES, where all property accumulated during the marriage, OR the INCREASE in value of existing separate property (property accumulated prior to the marriage), is considered community property which can only be divided 50/50, UNLESS the division is made to offset some other imbalance .  

A garbage disposal should be on a separate circuit, as they can draw a pretty decent Amp load.

To calculate the cash-on-cash (CoC) return for the rehabbed unit, take the annual rental income from the newly rentable unit and divide it by the capital invested in the renovation.Formula:CoC Return = (Annual Rental Income) / (Rehab Cost)This will show you the return based solely on the funds you put into the rehab.

Note investing can be divided into performing vs non performing.  

The basics of a seller financed deal are that the title co or closing attorney (if there is one) or seller’s attorney draws up the warranty deed transfers title, the promissory note evidencing the debt related to the transaction, and either the deed of trust or mortgage (whichever is being used) perfecting the lien against the subject property.  

Then divide that cost by the amount of time between now and then and that's how much you should be putting aside for Capex.For general maintenance, the age and condition of the building will play into that.

My challenge is that the equity is siloed in a high number of properties which complicates our ability to draw against it and leverage that for operational and investment purposes.Do you all know of banks willing to work with investors and able to underwrite at the portfolio level, rather than having to apply for and open HELOCs on a per-property basis?

So I would have debts of $5800 divided by $8,675 gives me a DTI of 67%.