When they said I had over 20% weeds, I made it clear to them in a phone call that if they were going to pursue a $1000 fine that they threatened me with, they would need to provide a quantifiable and repeatable method for measuring the weed saturation.

You can lose hundreds of thousands of dollars or more trying to save a couple thousand.Most investors are good at quantifying risk on a purchase then get uncle Bill in to do a Renovation or hire high school kids to do the demo… it’s bad business, and the risks don’t justify the rewards.

Even if prices do cool soon (and there are some signals that they will), that’s a much more palatable outcome than a collapse.A more in-depth breakdown of how to quantify appreciation prospects can be found in our market analysis.

It's hard to accurately quantify this but if you're looking at multi-family I think it's probably going to make sense.

If it was city ROW, not sure how one could quantify $$$ damages for a claim.  

I hope you're right that with a bit more experience it will be easier to quantify someone's value.

The value that is hard to quantify if I use scenario 2 is not using any of my resources except to do the repairs

I'd come up with a process to interview property managers and quantify your findings so that you could make an informed choice, should you choose to invest in RE.

Mary Ann It can be convoluted when quantifying whether it is commercial or not and can be quite the mind job if you allow it to be.

As to Mr Prominent's opening ideas, to mention "risk mitigation" and then follow with stating loan risk can not be identified or quantified leaves us with a bit of a dichotomy.