Now of course there's another aspect to this - it's not always a business decision; there's other aspects around personal growth / self improvement, and so on that only you can assign a "value" to of how much it's worth to you.But a good start would be trying to breakdown some of the numbers, and then see what it looks like on paper.Stay home VS work:Another tough one, IMO.I think folks often discount the value of a spouse (be it husband or wife) that stays at home to look after the house / kids / whatever.To me it's a simple scenario of - if you were working full time, take your positive income, and then subtract from it how much it'd cost to hire other people to do what you no longer have time to do (cleaning, chores, finances, etc.)If the number makes sense (i.e you can make 100K but you would spend only 20K) - win!

Buy it for 70% of value, sell it for 100% of value, subtract cost of sales and holding, and keep near 20% of deal.

. $400 x occupied/paying lots x 12 x .5 / cap rate = valueHOME VALUE: If you can sell the home for 10k-15k than subtract out your sales, marketing, Reno, title transfer costs etc and maybe a little more for fudge factor and pay that for the home so you can at least recoup costs.

To find the host's payout take their acommodation fee, subtract monthly discounts, and get 97% of that number.

The reason to do this is to get a base line so you'll have something to compare against when creating a deal with the seller.One path to explore is to see what her sales price is (if it's fair and agreeable) then subtract that amount from her balance on her mortgage and that would be her gross equity.

Subtracting closing costs, repairs and your desired profit then gives the MAO.You could try it again assuming the investor is using leverage, but I'm not sure that will help much.

Subtract lawyer fees, other expenses, etc. which total 15k.

I would then subtract that budget from the REO asking price and that's what I'd consider offering...but do you're homework.

So after its all subtracted, you're left with $110,100.

I think the best way to determine value of patios and decks is to utilized local building costs manuals like Marshall & Swift and then subtract any applicable depreciation.