Martial arts and fitness pay low rents per sq ft compared to medical tenants.

I compare with craigslist, hotpads, and zillow as well.

You'd need someone you can trust on the ground

I have been comparing expenses between my apartments in Berwyn and my apartments in South Bend, Indiana, and I am finding that the lower end units in South Bend are using up a much, much larger percentage of rents collected than my Berwyn properties.

Also, I would look at your original scope and compare with his change order invoice to see if any of the them items are the same or billed twice.

I’ve just read the bigger pockets book Long Distance Real Estate Investing by David Greene alongside Making Money in Real Estate: The Canadian Guide to Investing in Residential Property, and I’ve begun to dig in to CMHC data, and I’d be interested in hearing from fellow investors with...boots on the ground?

They do not want to owner finance it and then new owner runs it into the ground and they have to take the property back worth less than when they financed it.You have to be careful on giving full guarantee on  a project if you have limited experience just to get into a deal with owner finance.

Then when looking at potential deals, you can compare them to your criteria and see how well they meet your goals.

I own a couple of fourplexes in Texas, and the appraiser used comparables from other fourplexes in the neighborhood to give me the values.

They also have more of an investor mindset compared to residential Realtors.