Know this: that person is worth their weight in gold, and can be the primary person that you run things past or ask questions as you move through your day.

Also, is the floor on which you plan to build engineered to take the weight of a full structure?  

I want to check them all out and weight out the options.

Underlying principle for our deal analysis is that while we value cash flow to expedite saving for future deals, we are much more weighted towards 1) great deals at purchase, 2) long term appreciation potential, and 3) getting as much of our capital back after refinancing as possible to repeat.

Neither has the weight of an appraisal.

If you were to hire an appraiser, he/she may use the "income approach" i.e. cap rate and put some weight to it but recent sales carry a lot of weight in determining value. 

5 plus units the appraiser is weighting the income approach more than anything.

The pros seem to out weight the cons.

@Brie Schmidt Without the tax assessed value having weight, how do you gauge the value of the property you are buying?

This will sound passive-aggressive and it's not meant to be, but if you think being a newbie landlord is tough, try doing it with a $30K annual weight around your neck!