CoStar is used extensively by us brokers to facilitate the transacting of property.

For instance, if you bought a house for 30 put 20 in it and have soft costs of 10 then you are all in at 60k but if the house is worth 100 then you can comfortably pull out 70 and based on rents and expenses if you are still making money and a good debt coverage then is it really over leveraging?

I would recommend evaluating your stock/bond/growth distribution with a short time frame.For instance, someone retiring within the next 5 years would be extremely conservative, as to preserve their principle and make roughly around 3-4% on dividends.

The limited experience I have would be remodeling my own home, but that was much less extensive than the work needed for a traditional flip.Thank you all in advance!

@Kenny TanI work extensively in the Sacramento 2-4 unit market, and based on your suggestions I'm assuming the property is somewhere near the city core or in Fair Oaks / Carmichael.

For instance, Detroit or Cleveland.

For instance, I'll schedule Wednesday 11:00-12:30. 

I don't foresee any push back considering I am the president of the HOA. 2) Obtain official plans / drawings to extend steal balcony3) Us plans and apply for Chicago Setback approval4) Build steal extension to roof deck when approved4)  Obtain official plans / materials and apply for building permit for deck build out.

Not only does my remodeling background help my clients with the remodeling process, but I also have extensive knowledge of how you can leverage your money to scale your business in Real Estate.

and its hard to make sense of them in some instances because the amount of money to get them into service outstrips market rents.And right now we are seeing in some markets rents are higher than mortgage payments.. and many developers doing A class up scale new apartments are seeing some stress as there rents are not achieving proforma.