Don't worry, you can get the job done without MLS data, it's just harder to do.As far as your question about making an improvement and if it's worth it, that just depends on your market and is a very difficult question to answer, even for an appraiser.

I appreciate you taking the time to assist and to provide this list of information to include.Purchase price: 249,900Down payment: 7,500Additional closing costs: 4,887Additional cash for improvements: ~1,000Current market value: 298,000 (this is Zillow estimate, haven't discussed with my realtor yet)Current loan balance: 235,227Current loan interest rate: 5.0%Monthly mortgage payment: 1,574Monthly average total costs (with utilities included as it is a furnished short-term rental): ~1900Monthly average rental income: 2241 (averaged over past six months, has ranged from 1423 to 2646)Monthly long-term rental potential (assuming no utilities or furniture): 1500-1600 (pretty much just the mortgage)

They will also want to know what improvements you made to the property to increase the equity. 

Extra doors for one mortgage.We also did move regularly into fixers, improved them over time.

I think the software could be improved for vendor payments and tracking, but that wasn't a huge issue for me. 

The manufacturers keep improving these washers.

Around the same time, I began to discover self improvement books and of course happened upon Rich Dad.I have been steadily researching for all that time since, and trying to improve my station  and job expertise (pipeline inspection) to enable me to get real estate. 

She is over 65, so she not only gets the standard Texas homestead exemption, she gets the over 65 exemptions as well.We would like her to begin the process of writing off portions of her mortgage interest and improvement expenses on the property as business expenses.

If you dont have any construction experience or a NJ home improvement contractors license you are asking for trouble. 

We are fixing up the units and improving the tenant base.