A bottle of water would command a higher price in a desert than a supermarket...Disclosures often time mean nothing and are merely one part physiological warfare on a borrower/buyer and the other a paperwork version of crossing your fingers.

I am pretty dang certain the few short sales I have purchased the banks would not have been ok with it because I had asked if i could close in my personal name after starting the paperwork in an LLC, and basically it had to go through the whole chain of command again to get approval from every lender involved to change the name again at closing time.

Before you walk into that house you should know how much it command in the market, whether that market us open or closed.If you have the math ready to go, you don't need to worry about offending anyone.

It looks higher end, so when paired with other small upgrades, should command a little more rent.

Are apartments commanding top dollar?

Then relist it and flip it for perhaps that 30% you suggested, plus a little extra since it will appear as a completely renovated home, so that should command a little extra as well.

This is just not happening anywhere I know of.EDIT: A $150k home in Phoenix is in a slum and sure wouldn't command a 1700 monthly rent.

Because I do my deals on "low down, no credit check etc", I am able to command a premium price.

More so as you go up in value as the higher end homes do not command a premium rent in comparison to the mid-range or low end.John Corey

To-date we have not been able to command above market rent as a result of the energy efficiency improvements to our properties, but we are starting to see a reduction in turnover and we have a waiting list for two of our properties.