Learned that unless you make justify an increase in price, the additional just isn’t worth it.

However, I do see that contractors could get sick of this if they saw no increased business and I had them bid a job a week. 

@Chris Mason - how has the rate increase effected business? 

My thoughts would be just fixing it up will increase the value.

Landscaping can definitely increase ARV, but may make more of a difference when it comes to first impressions of a buyer/renter. 

If an investor isn't game for research, due dil and some increased time/effort, then a self-directed IRA may not be a good fit. 

There is a 6 month seasoning period after the initial purchase to do a cash out on the increased value post rehab. 

However if the property isn't fully stabilized, and it needs to be rehabbed or occupancy increased (fully stabilized is typically considered 85-90% + occupancy) then you may have to do the purchase with a specialty commercial program until it can become fully stabilized.

A 10% increase after a claim really isn't that bad.

Marvin There are so many things to consider, the way I will go about it will be by acquiring a debt weapon, home equity line of credit maybe for 20,000 and use that to pay down your principal there are some good youtube videos that will explain how to pay down your mortgage faster and save thousands of dollars in interest, but you need to have at least $500 of cash flow each month for that to work or use that to pay of a car payment faster anything that will increase your debt to income ratio so you can start saving more money each month cut down your monthly bills pay off all credit cards anyway you can i will try to get out of any car payments sell the cars buy a use one before selling the house, rent a room is a big house. obviously like i said lots of things to think about do you have kids so maybe a roommate wont work and your finances with out looking at them is hard to plan but I will try to make that house the investment get created if you have good credit that’s exactly how i started i hustle pay down my principal using the HELOC technique and when my equity become more because of lowering the principal I call my lender and increase my HELOC amount to the point that i was able to buy a house cash using the HELOC my HELOC became my checking account and i was paycheck parking all my income in the heloc is hard to explain what i did in a text but i hope this help you in getting created and into looking at more information before you sell or selling is the best way to go about it.