That's really a different animal (to me) where you have to look at things like ceiling height and loading bays for industrial.  

So this house has been completely vandalized: wires, pipes, walls, electric box, ceiling, a/c, even the interior doors.

I just got back from a house in Florida and the general condition was good but things like the ceiling fans and the intake vents in the bath fans were filthy.

I just closed on my first 3unit house a month ago.Put 25% down My cash on cash return is 19% annually or 1.7% monthly.I'll be honest here and say I was very eager to buy and bought at market value...lesson learned their.My plan is to pay the house off in just under 5 years and to use the equity to buy another property free and clear of a mortgage.But my goal is to acquire many properties.My DTI is to high to finance another property the conventional way any time soon.So my ideas are 1) Pay off the house, use equity to buy another2) Utilize 3rd floor attic space (high ceilings, stair case) build a 3 bedroom apartment that will bring me in another $800 or so a month.

With the 5 year resets, we have gotten rate ceilings put in place to keep from the rate shooting up significantly.  

every wall in the house had mold on it,  and every ceiling in every room was either coming down, or already down.   

We have a multifamily under contract (to use as a rental and owner occupancy, maybe condo-ize it someday) in the Roxbury/Dorchester area and would like to make something of the basement, which has a high ceiling and looks dry, but of course they're always damp at least.  

It's actually a fixed home with no axels and has a vaulted ceiling. but it is surrounded by similar 1000SF homes

.~ Paint: I have a 2 tone paint scene + white ceiling paint we apply to all units.

But I believe xactimate spits out accurate costs, the only problem is whoever is inputting it needs to know what they are doing, if you plug in only painting, it will spit out costs for painting, and not include remove wallpaper, patch walls, remove popcorn ceiling and all that.