You shouldn't spend a dime on an architect until you're ready to go forward with a project and that you should be able to determine quite easily on your own with a tape measure and a calculator.If you're doing a gut rehab in NYC or the area you can generally figure out costs just on a per foot basis.

If you keep your property in good condition, have stop signs at cross walks in parking lots and take measures to reduce your exposures you really won't have an issue, but things can still happen.You must be negligent to be liable.Then it falls to insurance, if you are sufficiently covered, your assets will never be at risk!

If you have no measurable goal or metrics by which to measure your investment performance, no systems in place for rent up, management or service calls and essentially no alternative investments by which to compare, this will likely never be an attractive investment for you. 

The tenants have already received their 30 day notices and several contractors are coming this weekend to take measurements.

Would the chart change materially if the abscissa was measured with different units?  

@Ray Lai I have seen a number of these measures pass.

If you are going to include it, the amount should be measured in months (1/12th).  

As we get closer to elections, we should be *active* on BP to help defeat that terrible measure!

A measure of this is the IRR of a property which can tell you the optimal year to sell the property.

Zillow rental manager measures the number of views for your ADS, you may notice more activity there with more creative headlines, with tougher properties to rent, I would change the headline every few days.