The best use for the deal analysis forum IMO is to get others with more experience to chime in on the "soft" estimates, to tell you if you're in the right ballpark, or way offGood luck with the close!

Appraisers can be touchy about someone pushing them too hard, so you will want to tread softly.

Hello guys listen Dj comes off as a soft toned guy who’s knee deep into helping you Telling u his background an how there gonna sky rocket your business or get your business started or evolved then once he gets your payment he falls back poor communication no follow up from his so called 6figure vp i begged to just let me out of this scheme but he sweet talked me again with more access to more software which i never  ever used i don’t know how to use an i explained to him but he’s the type that gets offended when u call him out on his bs then he Makes you feel like your wrong he flips the circumstances making it seem like your in the wrong an it’s his software this creep ****er is a hustler please don’t waste your time or MONEY the *** hole played me out of 1000.00 bucks a month ago but today 4/23/20 he attempted to draft another 1000.00 but good thing i don’t use that account anymore i didn’t receive the welcome packet nothing i really hope this helps please RUN the other way this POS is a user and a manipulator i hope this helps!

I had this battle with them before when they came in short on an appraisal of mine.But you trade that for lots of other perks they offer:only a soft credit pull that needs to be 660.you have to show exactly 0 bank reserves (this is crazy, only lender out there who operates like this)Not much in terms of documentation.

Kids and I are pulling out the kitchen floor on a property where the kitchen floor is 'soft' in spots. 

@Richard Warner @Taylor HorowitzTo me the real risk is not that a PM company is going to screw you (there are steps you can do to mitigate this) but the real risk is you lack of buffer in your Cashflow to weather a soft renal market or unlucky string of repairs or cap ex..

I was just talking to a guy in Juneau  He said they were seeing some softing a bit as Juneau is heavily dependant on the state.RR 

You will see the whole spectrum from a soft sell to a hard sell.

The one golden nugget I took away from him, was:"Your Soft Costs should never exceed 15% of your Hard costs"Soft costs include items like engineering, architectural and legal fees and other pre-construction costs.Hard costs include physical construction.

Texas markets historically have been doing so well that any little cool off is seen as a huge downturn when a soft market there is still out performing  many markets in other states.Dallas and Fort Worth along with Austin were recently named in the top 5- 18 hour cities in the nation.