If you want the opinion of value to reflect the interior of the home, which you've presumably taken good care of (if not improved), then the person developing the opinion must go inside... which means full appraisal.Cynically I kind of assume that loan servicers sometimes default to doing BPOs that assume the interior is trashed so they get an accurate "at foreclosure" values.

Never leave any detal to chance or presumed understanding.

I see you are in NC, so I presume that has something to do with it.

He presumed that the "value" of the property & market would go up in the intermediate & long term.B).

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As long as private lenders and REIs are liquid and excited to invest still out there, (which they will be, presuming interest rates aren’t monstrous and the stock market doesn’t entirely crash over the next 12 months) then the real estate market will be just fine.However, if inflation takes off, all bets are off and every simulation out there needs to be thrown in the trash.

Presumably your power comes overhead off the pole and goes to a single main.

You are prepared to invest in a complex (so presumably many units and much money) pay a little more and you will MORE than recoup your investment in paying a professional by saving the trouble and/or money of using the wrong setup....

There are 6 properties between $800k and $1mil & 25 above $1mm within 10 minutes drive of the main campus, which is the location I presume you mean.What's your intended budget ?

I can see your head is spinning with ideas and scenarios.You are describing two (2) different approaches, one involving the purchase of the asset, presumably for cash and imaging off the encumbrances; the other buying the equity.It's all about risk and who takes what and when.If it were me, I'd go the equity route.