That should be staged with chairs so buyers are encouraged to sit down and look at that beautiful lake. 

Commission + average costs in our market for escrow closing, transfer taxes, professional staging, inspection reports - termite and contractor - & house cleaning.cash on cash is only metric we use

We are in the very preliminary stages, but could you let me know what I would need to do in order to apply for a loan.

It sounds like you didn’t set the stage in the beginning and allowed the tenant to take advantage of you.  

Your hustle is likely more valuable at this stage than your current available capital, especially in an expensive market like So-Cal.

Presumably this is done just to get more followers or feel part of a tribe but I can imagine it misleading people who are in the early stages of learning and coming across it.

(i.e. if the property is on the first floor compared to the top floor, well there might be safety concerns, or noise concerns compared to a comp that sold on the top floor of another building down the street).Condition, the condition looks great, and looks to have been staged?

My project is still on early stage and I need to consider all aspects of it.

.- Nearly always (unless your home is like a staged new construction model home) staging - meaning even if you have your own items in the home, usually moving things around, removing some, replacing others with rental items if the original items make the rooms look too small or dated, adding/replacing decor and art work, making sure flow and decor maximize space and positive features, repainting walls if the paint color is lowering appeal.- Same concept for outside.- Professional grade photos.- Pricing that takes into account your home's unique features, which could mean going higher or lower than just lumping it in with the mix of comps that appear to be similar.This is agent specific and not necessarily related to a specific company, I see high end 'premier' listings poorly marketed by mainstream traditional companies sometimes and some 'budget' agencies where the agent just did a great job with this stuff. 

Far too many get stuck in the "paralysis by analysis" stage, thinking they just don't know enough to get started.