You just need to understand HOW the system is designed, and then determine if it is more cost effective to change the overall configuration, or simply mitigate potential abuses and simple inefficiency.If you are paying the heat, you better ensure you have adequate insulation, weatherstripping, and storm windows.

Concentrate on building your business with that goal in mind, HMLs, investor splits, highly leveraged partnerships are the most costly way to begin, a few deals might be necessary, but get away from that as soon as possible.

We are not trying to pinch pennies for the exercise and we want them to look nice to advertise our company.Do people generally have to supply logo designs in a certain format for the designers or will any standard format do?

So, I see you are an author of a real estate book and concentrate on, what appears to be, little cash in a deal, so what do you do and how do you do it?

Once I close, I will be taking my team of engineer, inspector, electrician, and designer to the property to help measure out rooms and develop a new floor plan.

@Jason Turgeon Good question, So the simple answers are design and location. 

For a rental that is a nice building, modern features, contemporary design - it tell's their friends who they are.THREE: new - smells new, looks new and feels new.

Although I concentrate mostly in AZ, NV, and CA, I will look for properties anywhere buyers I have are interested in.

Most if not all successful investors, even if they don't have someone in the field that they look up to and learn from have people like lawyers, contractors, designers, real estate agents, etc. that they work with.

That's why the initial Cash Flow calculations is the one that these Investors concentrate on to the exclusion of future cash flows as well as they don't know or understand the calculations.