When I'm looking into a property for investment (a rental), what are the factors I'm evaluating?

We currently evaluate properties using $25 a sq ft for basic surface rehab (new paint, kitchen, baths, some door/trim, landscape, drywall, minor plumbing and electrical).

A market cap rate is calculated by evaluating the financial data from current sales of similar income producing properties in a given market place.

Yes, banks do evict people all the time.This is necessary in order for a proper evaluation of the property condition, which should be your main "subject 2" clause.

The record high was 7.8 percent in 1986.So much for all the people that subscribe to the idea that you should try to predict each expense when evaluating a property.

I advise companies on buy vs lease decisions, advise on how different lease clauses impact the value of property, help companies in an M&A evaluate the value of leased or owned locations, assist in leveraged sale/leaseback transactions for a fee, complete due diligence for property acquisitions, such as reading all the leases, verify the operating expenses...stuff like that....

OK, four evaluations.

Check out property evaluator for example@Josh - is that just an expensive ssh app?

We're evaluating loaning out some of our funds for investors seeking only wet funding/transactional:For those of you with experience loaning out your own funds for short term transactional funding, if you were setting up today, knowing what you now know, would you go with the IRA.LLC [Guidant's or someone else's ]or a SD IRA-- and why?

Another reason a lender would not use assessed value is because homeowners are constantly disputing their tax assessed value on their homes which does not reflect a reasonable evaluation of real estate.