Property management companies for the most part are all about the quantity of properties they have rather than the quality of properties and the quality of their property managers.

@Leslie N Harmon I will definitely check them out.

Featuring Talavera tile, restored original Batchelder fireplace, and sweeping curved ceilings that harmoniously pair with the modern, open floor plan.

Featuring Talavera tile, restored original Batchelder fireplace, and sweeping curved ceilings that harmoniously pair with the modern, open floor plan.

The cubic foot limit is an interesting one as you could have a pretty dramatic effect on that quantity by manipulating floor to floor heights and roof pitches, seems as though it would encourage more cramped spaces to get the building in under the limit. 

You want quality leads, not quantity.

And in any event, because multi-family data is found in less quantity and quality than would be ideal (far from it in your case) an appraisal of such properties will always be weak.Here is my advice for the future - ignore almost everything in the appraisal with exception to two things.

They require you to purchase a package of a minimum # of searches per month, but depending on how much you are lending out it might make sense to subscribe even if you only will use just a small part of that quantity over the course of a year.The data they have on everyone is insanely detailed - way, way beyond a simple background and credit check like we run on tenants.

For now I'm going to handwrite them but I intend to hire out a service as the quantity of leads grow.

In some instances, doing your own staging is a good add on (if you are doing enough quantity each year And have the ability to store it.