Dealing with family is a multiplier of risk, dealing with broke family increases risk exponentially. 

Usually decisions are made locally - as your portfolio multiplies you want people who can actually put your face with your name and your properties with addresses and areas they know. 

If there are no houses very close to the size/quality that you are looking at then find similar sold homes and determine a good price per square foot for those homes and multiply that number times the square footage for the home you are looking at. 

Multiply that by 3 and you will have spoken to 45 people.

Multiply these numbers by six, and if you brought $150,000 ready to invest and took out these loans, you just invested $147,000 for a profit of $162,000.

The property was assessed within the last two years at a value of $91,000 and at $825 the rent multiplier is at 1.13 which is not our best property, but it will perform better as rents improve.Those are the numbers on this particular property.Phillip - please accept my invitation to discuss if there is anything we can help you with here.

Talk to your property manager for their rate and multiply it by the expected rent.

That differential in time spent prepping to rent, multiplied by daily rate achievable is another factor to consider.

Jaden- Take all the problems with real estate in the U.S. and multiply by 10!

@Steven Hamilton II or Dave NA might have better input than mine, but I believe the RATIO of land assessment to total assessed value should be multiplied by your purchase price to get your land value that then gets subtracted from the purchase price to get the value of the structure for depreciation purposes.