These are important questions because renovations can quickly eat away at your budget especially if you don't have a trustworthy contractor.

What I have found through Google and forum searches is split between "everything is deductible" to "you just eat this cost."

It's harder to finance good properties right now for obvious reasons, and if you go NNN or DST then you need to be very clear about the costs (upfront and ongoing) that might eat at your returns. 

Myself included, I'm one of the few here with nothing to sell but I've extracted so much info from the forums it'd be a fat lie if I said I'm all give, no take.Best thing to do is not use your real name too. 

This cuts down on the back-and-forth driving, which can eat up a lot of time.

If you plan on keeping it as a rental - and you might want to talk to some experienced Clevelanders first - then you'll have to eat the $30k as well to make it work.

At a standard brokerage, we have to design how were eating their lunch and what's left. eXp put's out there they will give away the lion's share of brokerage comm split's, making it available to those "up-chain" of that agent.

I am certainly afraid of the unknown, which would include those fees eating up the equity that I have built to date.

These are just talks we have from time to time on experience with how a GP thinks when sourcing and evaluating deals.For value add I only do very fat deals now to syndicate for single tenant.

I would think it would eat up a big chunk if not all of your buy-down.