They provide the framework for doing well and creating a functioning business but I'd guess most of the learning could also be found here on BP.

thanks again.for those who are interested i now have a basic framework for filtering.

Some basic frameworks to model for a starting place?

Any ideas, as far as a framework for a deal?

Maybe I am taking the wrong framework but that's my current thinking.

You may win, you may lose, but hopefully it's an amount of money that you can afford to lose.I would not put any non-losable money into Bitcoin, it's future is just way too uncertain - both for currency/investment perspective, as well as the framework for buying/selling. 

I'm trying to be prepared with a framework that would give us an 'exit' strategy, or at least a more quantitative analysis that would lead us to sit on the sidelines (beyond traditional ROI) metrics, and drive me to do something else with my time.Intuitively I feel that the debt to income and what happens to it over time (ie: does it plateau as we increase in scale) seems important, I just haven't been able to put my finger on how to think about this.Please, any and all And more specifically, if we were to think about debt to income, do we calculate income AFTER accounting for mortgage (debt servicing) payments, or before? 

You could then hold it within that framework. 

I currently have been using the market phase framework from David Lindahl's book Emerging Real Estate Markets--and have come up with a similar assessment.

However, qualified improvement property doesn't include any improvement for which the expenditure is attributable to the enlargement of the building, any elevator or escalator or the internal structural framework of the building.3) No, I didn't mean that.