Keep records of the amount of income that is generated by the ADU (or the main home), and /or get your hands on similar listings in the area that can help quantify the potential income.

Still not overly confident that our offer reflects the property's true value, though, without a professional inspection.This week, my wife and I used the BP rehab calculator tool to create an excel spreadsheet to help quantify any/all of the upgrades/updates that we would like to do to the building, both in the short term (interior paint, window replacement) and the very long term (add pass-thru garage door, move/remove walls in apartment, open the layout). 

As a syndicator, I have an obligation to be a good steward with my investor’s capital and spend a significant amount of time identifying the optimum capital structure of each investment which includes market research and actually quantifying the risk premium.

Better yet, we live in a world of abundant data now so is there somebody out there that has data for your market and has quantified the value of having cable as an amenity?

@Victoria Knutson start by defining your primary goal and then quantifying it.

Never done this before so looking to hear more about deal structure and how to actually quantify the cost of carrying the loan.

I pay my CPA something like $2k per year but I can't even quantify the tens of thousands of dollars that he saves me every year by structuring my tax returns exactly the way that they should be. 

I think that could be difficult to quantify/ qualify & could turn future tenants off if they think they are going to be fined X amount of dollars if they are out of town & not able to notify me of any "utility" work being done.

Better tenants and less vacancy is near impossible to quantify when making these decisions, but the anticipated benefits do exist.

The numbers typically look great on paper but there are other factors that come up that are hard to quantify.