But if the skills you bring to the table are limited, or like many of us, you can’t swing a hammer without nursing a swollen thumb afterwards, then contractors it is.Good contractors are worth their weight in gold.

If you are talking about single family rentals then it depends on how many you can amass to out weight your cost of travel to inspect.

An inspector is good but the engineer will carry more weight.

Also interesting to note is the NAHB arrives at their figures by applying different weight to different classes of properties.

Do do this, the hatch has to have a little weight to it.  

That would represent a 2% to 4% risk premium over the REIT after accounting for the move favorable tax treatment with direct ownership.I'm looking at 2-4 unit multi-families and I'm not giving any weight to potential appreciation.

Maybe you'll get enough data where you can do a weighted average.

Anything 4 units and under appraisers use the comparable sales approach where 5 plus units the weight is given to the income approach.So to take a pure income approach to 2 to 4 units or residential will yield mixed results.

Since they are the local PM heavy weights and trend all their units, they will be able to tell you some good estimates.  

Now at her age she has to try to repay what she borrowed on, and I have the weight of the world to try to figure out a way for this money to be replenished.