Rent income is $1200 or can even do $1250 if i upgrade kictchen with backslash and stainless appliances. am not sure how to quantify vacancy but overal possible cash flow around $350 monthly, take 1 month out for vacancy and year cash flow maybe be $3000. not accounting for taxes, depreciation and equity built.

I also think the "chicken littles" of the real estate sector need to quantify that most of the news being reported is "new home sales" where builders went crazy and demand, interest rates, gas prices (buyers are feeling the pinch with less money to buy - so they are waiting and trying to watch every penny).

Victoria, BC (6.7) and Toronto (6.5) are the next least affordable housing markets in Canada.It has even become an issue in our current federal election with the Prime Minister pledging resources to quantify the effect of foreign capital on housing in Vancouver and Toronto.

Risk is much harder to quantify as a number, but if goals are being met and your risk is low, who cares if you're sacrificing opportunity? 

How do you quantify inconvenience? 

Some people set them off gut feelings or dreams, but I am interested in how individuals quantify their Real Estate goals.I set my current year goals off of available capital and projected cash flow, does anyone use anything different?

So I'm taking what the developer has created and adding what I want to it without all the bloat.Now if you truly have 100's of units I can see paying for one of the big names but for the average user, it's just an expense we can never quantify.

But these posts and books never quantify what the difference is between a lower income area and “a war zoneâ€.

I assume a 1920s house will cost a lot more than a 1990s house but I have not seen any data on how to quantify this difference.

I called this a value proposition need because I'm finding it hard to quantify our value in this.