I'd say my area is closer to 1% than 2%.

The grass was about 5 feet high & so on.

To quote WWII Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, "I would never invade the United States, there would be a gun behind every blade of grass."

Otherwise, since your partner is 15 minutes closer to your properties, you could store everything there.

This shows that even if things don't work out quite as well as you might expect ("expenses" closer to 60% than 50%), you can still do well with a deal that passes these simple screens.

I also went with the oil base from lowes, and also went with a darker color, but it does show dirt pretty bad, think imma go with a color closer to yours next time.

I use MasterLock as well, but I think they are priced closer to $30 - and available at Home Depot as well.

Using the same comps (or some of the same comps) as the first appraiser makes the job a good bit faster and easier.While I certainly don't know that this is what's going through the appraiser's mind, the fact that my second appraisals nearly always come in very close to the first indicates to me that it is...As an example, I had a house a few months ago where the first appraiser used a comp that was 2.5 miles away to get the value to come in at the contract price (there were certainly decent comps that were closer, but they were much lower value and wouldn't have allowed the appraisal to come in at contract price).

I'm currently working with them to get them closer to my number.

So my guess is closer and cheaper wins.