We are working on raising rents for the other 5 units over the next few months $25-$50.

I want to buy a 16 units multifamily but the majority of the funds for downpayment will be raised from investors.

Raised $200,000 from 6 investors (50/50/30/30/20/20) and I had a lawyer write up a promissory note with with a two part guarantee, from the LLC that owns the house and me personally.

What makes the person just starting out so confident they can raise the rent 1,200/month?  

Buy the land, develop it into half acre parcels and having standards for growing food and raising animals for food with a butcher station on the property and a bartering style farmers' market where tenants can sell to the public and barter with each other or sell to each other.These are very early stage thoughts.  

It seems like EVERYTIME I register for semenars, it’s always the events that try and get me to pay for their cours. I’m trying to raise some privat mony while avoiding the cours selling semenars. Any recommendations? ...

@Jack B. i am 5 units in and I am in the process of transitioning to buying bigger multi-family for long term cash-flow. if you know anyone, especially with the skillet to raise capital or who have capital who might interesting in partnering up. let me know! 

Raising rents to market, doing those fixes in theory raises the value when using the income approach.

Simply raise the rent. 

Apparently, the Board of Education there tracks commercial sales and files against these properties once they are sold to raise appraised value for property tax calculations.