I've put an artificial time frame at around 6-9 month.

.+2 Mentality: Improve those aroung youIf you don’t ask the right question(s), you won’t get the right answer(s)What is the difference between Knowledge and Intelligence?

Investors including income generated by equity in cash flow calculations are artificially inflating their numbers and this will contaminates the properties income calculations.Any investor can inflate cash flow by throwing their own cash at a property.As stated your ROI is what is of greatest importance.

There may be a few short forms to complete as well so that he can intelligently discuss loan options with you.

That tells me you're dealing with an intelligent seller.

That $3000 pays for not only the evaluations of the property by local real estate professionals familiar with the market, it pays for the real estate professional in our office who  goes through the numbers of the deal with the borrower to make sure that it is even worth ordering evaluations, it pays for the project manager who goes through the contractor bid line by line to make sure that the bid is actually  what needs to be done and not some type of "buddy pricing" or artificially low so that it appears to qualify for financing.

Especially for intelligent people like yourself, school isn't necessarily about learning the content, it's about learning how to work with others, negotiate difficult social issues and to provide others with information and products in the way they want to see them.

The supply is artificially shortened by the one company that controls most of the worlds diamond supply.

We are working on networking with wonderful, intelligent folks like y'all locally, so we can gain the knowledge and resources necessary to find off-market deals and work with sellers directly going forward.  

@Daniel Dem nobody can say with any intelligence because you didn't give us any details on Scope Of Work, so it could be cheap, dirt cheap, right on, over priced or wildly over-priced, only the details on SOW is going to lend insight.