You can have a positive influence having commercial aspects or negatives, positives will generally not add value as it is very hard to show in the market but negatives are easily shown, so if there is a bar down stairs from an apartment, be careful.You first assess valuations individually to the properties and then adjust the influences of the mix.

But one county over in the city of Orlando where my parents live prop tax can be WAY higher due to special assessments.

Because, from my experience, the majority of investigative/assessment meetings would include the bean counters.Now in real life, with tight margins, your RE successes could very well hinge on the GC you are at the mercy of.

it's obviously good to know so you have all the capital prepared for closing and I want to be prepared to spend more than I expect.but what exactly do you include in your assessments of ROI and yearly profits?

Only take it out when a tenant moves out and you assess them damages and that money is used to then pay for the damages.

(Now I have $4.5k on the table)Then the new Tax Assessment more than tripled taking a lot of their rental income.

That at least translates into spending HOA money and perhaps a special assessment.

@Mike HurneyGave me some great advice on them.We assessed several as my new hvac guy installs them.

That said, you need to be careful with certain areas, and certainly check the 2014 tax assessment since they had a big reassessment this last year.

I'm not saying RE investors are inherently bad, I'm saying there is nobody, in many cases, not all cases, that can assess risk properly.By the way, this new law applies to the "issuer" of the security, not simply licensed brokers.