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Unless there are mitigating factors, I think this makes sense to me as one way to lessen the blow from everything you have going on.

Know this: that person is worth their weight in gold, and can be the primary person that you run things past or ask questions as you move through your day.

Also, is the floor on which you plan to build engineered to take the weight of a full structure?  

I want to check them all out and weight out the options.

Underlying principle for our deal analysis is that while we value cash flow to expedite saving for future deals, we are much more weighted towards 1) great deals at purchase, 2) long term appreciation potential, and 3) getting as much of our capital back after refinancing as possible to repeat.

Neither has the weight of an appraisal.

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If you were to hire an appraiser, he/she may use the "income approach" i.e. cap rate and put some weight to it but recent sales carry a lot of weight in determining value. 

5 plus units the appraiser is weighting the income approach more than anything.