The 8 to 10% is worth its weight in gold. 

White is also still popular in flips due to buyers being able to change it easier upon closing or if lighting is poor and the space needs to be brightened up.  

I lived in Toronto for a couple of years, and the real estate there is quite funky.Making the trip and meeting people in person will be worth its weight in gold...GREAT CALL on that.We work solely in Chicago as a general contractor...for now. 

Hey Elias, house hacking is a popular and effective strategy.

They are worth their weight in gold.They actually specialize in smaller multi family in the Lehigh Valley so their business is built around the model.

I can see this becoming more popular as time goes on.   

My first metric of weight I consider is CAP-X.

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The good ones are worth their weight in gold, but does the license make them magically smarter?

Not knowing anything else about the future this keeps your pro forma not overly weighted one way or another.