How did you arrive at the $325K for renovations? 

When did they first arrive?

They just required my dog meet their dog when we arrived.

Then read on.I am that guy that arrived in USA after leaving his country, namely Cuba, in a homemade raft.

If you want to use a cost appraisal, you must then subtract various depreciation factors to arrive at one component of a FMV appraisal.

Then look at the construction approach (lookup your area in the Marshal Swift construction reference and followthe type style costs) for that home less depreciation of the improvements, the reaminder will be the land value.In some areas, tax assessorslist land and improvements seperately, you can get an idea of valuations by looking at the assessments and the current market values as to the homes and arrive at a % difference, say finding that the market value in that area runs about 15 or 20% higher than the assessment and then apply that to the assessed land valuation, this will be a ball park assessment.Another way is to look at the total market value of comprable homes in the area.

I know what you all mean, but you are comingling funds (accounts) to arrive at an ROI.See what I'm saying?

. $450k which was arrived by taking the $712.5k value less 30% = $500,000 then reduce $50k repairs.Hope that helps.

When I arrived at the home, Murphy's law showed up and more things couldn't have gone wrong.

-You wait outside the property for the sheriff's deputy to arrive.