There are lots of good books on Amazon, podcasts, and real estate trainers who can help you get started.

Which implies he accepted the buyer would pay appraisal + $10K.It is written poorly, but not much different than "property price must meet or beat appraisal" and an adjust. 

But I would make the case that typically the contractors that will respond to a bonus generally are not the ones you want, because it implies they are not motivated on their own to just do the job quickly and at high quality.

A larger size (approx 300 sqt ft larger) duplex in the same community appraised at the same contract price as mine, which implies I may be overpaying.   

This implies in the near term renting is cheaper than retail purchase. 

Clifford to not allege or imply that he is trying to obtain a payoff. 

This implies you would need 3.5% down, closing costs, and reserves.

Hi @Mary Jay,I'm still a small-time landlord (two properties), and I have found Excel to be manageable (though I haven't used the other programs folks on this thread have suggested and not implying that my way is better). 

This implies that it is unreasonable to expect the ADU to add the same PSF as the primary structure would by itself because the land and its value is now shared.The market will dictate the value assigned to ADUs especially when more comps are available, but to expect the market to ever fully reflect the hands off cost to add an ADU is unrealistic for the reasons cited.Good luck

The statement "How to buy your second investment property" implies you have a first investment property.