Our budget with rehab is around 150.We do understand the value of professionals and I guess a great interior designer can actually pay itself (by increasing the ARV).Just wanted to get the community's take.

Hard Money Lender How did you add value to the deal?

How did you add value to the deal?

If you are looking for great areas to cashflow and very reasonable ARV's that allow for value add investment strategies, I can't reccomend whitehall enough.

How did you add value to the deal?

There's pockets all over the greater Tampa Bay Area that are B class and up but balancing that with a decent cap rate is going to be tricky unless you either have low cap rate expectations or are will to do value add to the property or being more creative such as using a short or midterm rental strategy or even room by room with padsplit.2) Verify as well the 1031 is going to allow "like for like" into a single family. 

@Carmine Moscardelli, yes, you can wholesale turnkey deals as long as you acquire them below market value.

How do I calculate the home’s current value, are there other ways of doing it without an appraiser?

In a lot of cases in the city, CityFHEPS and Section 8 are paying more than market value for rent :) 

Also, since they'd probably be leasing at near market value, it's unlikely you could get much above that.