Traditional + Seller back financing How did you add value to the deal?

Back home I would make a packet for my appraiser and never had a bad appraisal due to the that I specified the value add and the Reno amount and broke it down so they saw the potential and it always worked.  

How did you add value to the deal?

Based on rent of $1,695, I think you'll be lucky to get an appraised value of $160k with a CoC return well under 2%.

The time has come for me to start investing in real estate and before doing so i'm looking to build a strong and dedicated team of partners: agents, lenders, contractors and property managers mainly in the Cleveland area (but also open to markets within a 2-3 hr drive away) that already possess an excellent track record in their line of work and that value long term collaboration.

Property values only going up up up for decades. 

For comparison purposes, I hold ownership units in a LLC that owns a retail/service center where there is a mortgage loan that initially represented 50% of value, now about 35%.  

Being a BP listener since 2011 and recent forum junky, I cant get enough of the value and connections I am making here organically! 

There are some locations to stay away from but almost every single sub market of KC has value and increasing rents.

Bootstrap financing How did you add value to the deal?