What resources are there to determine what class a neighborhood belongs to?

Do you know how to evaluate a storage facility to determine market value, return on investment, cash flow, management needs, projected maintenance, etc?

After doing this for 20 years and doing 3,000 transactions, I realized that most associations have too much control and have the power to increase fees when they please, making it very hard to determine what your actual cash flow will be long term.

Buyer, at Buyer’s sole discretion, may accept theplan of242 remediation, terminate this Contract, or allow the Seller to escrow one and one half (1 ½)243 times the amount of the bid or written estimate, as determined by the Buyer, of such244 environmental repair(s)at Closing.

Good tenants are the result of:Targeting the right tenant poolSelecting the right propertyA skilled property managerHow do you determine the right tenant pool that will support your financial goals?

Determine if they are even motivated to sell, sounds like they may not be, but circumstances change all the time.

When using a commercial loan for a short term rental, how is the loan determined?

Can anyone confirm definitively what the calculation is for determining the federal capital gains tax on the sale of a long-term asset (rental property) for someone in the 15% capital tax bracket?  

@Colleen F.Did your dad determine they were functional, or was there another entity involved that advised to repair ?

The capitalization rate of an investment can be calculated by dividing the property's net operating income (NOI) by the current market value or acquisition cost of a property - expressed in the following formula: Cap Rate = Net Operating Income / Current Market Value " Chicago Cap Rate Analysis Please keep in mind this is a high level analysis.It should give you a ballpark idea of cap rates in the various Chicago neighborhoods.But some assumptions were made for this analysis.For example, to determine the net income for a property, I assumed it would be 50% of the Gross Rental Income.