@Irish Mac Start with identifying and quantifying your objective.

Of course, the European culture and ambience is mighty appealing as well and difficult to quantify! 

estimated deferred maintenance no more than $25,000 as quantified by the average of 3 bids from GCsThis way, you will avoid making the mistake of "cooking" the numbers just to buy something.  

@John Thedford For the loans you're making, how are you quantifying the risk you're taking on?  

Seems like a risk that's hard to quantify.

I'd stick with something very quantifiable for this kind of collaboration.

I can't even quantify how much I've learned!

To be honest, we don't fully understand the implications so it's tough to quantify to make the decision but feel it's best to be safe and suck it up w the worse terms.

Thank you, John.Jeff, wasn't sure if I would be able to quantify my lien position on any of the loans issued as an asset or not.

I'm relatively new to the real-estate investing world and am struggling to mentally calculate and quantify the offer in comparison to the expected future cash-flow + increase in value of the property.