While the majority of consumers deserve their score, for those who don't, gaming becomes a fine art that is soon disseminated throughout the Internet and reduced to a formula approach for which crusaders like Brian Diaz hope to make a darn good living.

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One BIG sign is when the real estate gurus start pumping their "magic formula" on the radio.

The basic conversion formula is the number of customers who have taken an action divided by the total number of customers. 

CoCR is the simplest formula there is. 

The rental income since I bought the property has allowed me to stay out of debt while in school so add that to whatever ROI and COC formula you have. 

New formula of old blue/black/yellow x number of drops into new solvent/binder can is going to be a little different. 

Using the same formula for real return above we get a 0.0334% percent return.Lets use Rich's argument above for taxes because honostly I don't know how much is saved on taxes.

Sometimes I deviate with tile/accent choices, but usually stick to my proven formula.2. hire a designer for each house, I think J Scott does this, I may be wrong.3. watch alot of HGTV, walk alot of rehabbed flips in your price range, and above (I like to take little details out of $500k plus houses and apply them down at my level), take alot of notes and walk home depot and get to know their inventory very well.I wouldnt become an interior decorator, when you can just hire one.

I’m sure they have a plan and a formula, I want their inside scoop.