There are other areas that are good too, but can talk in length when you are dialing in your parameters a little more.  

  - Secondly, appraisals without an arm's length transaction behind them (read: sale) are notorious for coming back light. 

I'd includeland infoif the city will allow itall preliminary costs before the okay to actually start buildingcost of construction length of construction contractor infocomps in the area by sales and income approach due to it being multifamily.market rents compsand basically a price for the entire project from start to finish.I'm coming up with a plan so i can start contacting lenders....especially if my offer doesn't get accepted haha

Investors, on the other hand, are generally individuals who buy properties for long-term investment and can benefit from capital gains tax rates.Holding Period: One of the factors that can help establish your status as an investor is the length of time you hold the property.

That office had a full-length mirror on the closet door.

At that point, price and interest and length doesn't really matter much, as long you got your payments low enough to support the property  

Think 3+ flips per year or providing property management to 5+ non-related property owners.You can setup a SDIRA and invest passively and at arm's length in things like rentals or private lending exclusively for the benefit of the IRA.There is no intersection or middle ground between those two options. 

This deal was an arms length transaction.

They have to do with the length of your leases, i.e. annual average of 7 or fewer days per stay.

The 7 years was the rental length, Mom passed in Dec 2012.