The more comfortable you need to live, the worse the numbers will be. 

Did you get a line item list of what was done or did he just tell you this is what you owe boss get out that checkbook.I hope you get this worked out to a comfortable price because that's an awful big number to just jump up and bite your checkbook - that's an awful lot of Mc'Donald's cheeseburgers. 

The situation escalated to the point of receiving death threats, so I no longer feel comfortable communicating with her.My Goal: I want to determine if filing a partition action is the right path forward to either sell the property or have my share bought out.

We are preapproved for about 800k but our budget for our first property is between $400-500k and are comfortable putting $70-100k down (the lesser the better). 

Yes, he could do a purchase contract prior to viewing but I would never ask a client to do this because I wouldn't be comfortable with it myself.  

What class of properties are you comfortable with? 

I wont say I go above and beyond on fixing up the places and making them jaw dropping beautiful, I still do them up enough to where I would be comfortable living there.

You can model out and find your own comfort level. 

Any advice helps :) How much leverage are you comfortable with?  

If you are buying in the bay area, you need to be comfortable with the property only appreciating unless you are open to putting down 50-70% down on the property.