You need to do this long before anyone pulls your mortgage credit report or you will get hit with the presumption of the payment.   

If an offer was accepted then we would pay a GC to inspect the property and determine if he could hit our target number.

It was a base hit!

But if your goal is to generate cash flow every month with this property, then its probably not going to hit your goals for the first couple of year until rents go up more.Just want to make sure you're going into it eyes wide open. 1.

Otherwise, all the listings in a particular area will get hit with the same inflation rate. 

Should hit the market in 2 weeks.

And I only tour ones that seem somewhat reasonably priced, which means I hit delete on 90%+ of the emails I get.  

Currently I'm trying to figure out the best ways to set myself up to hit those goals.

They said they need 3 months of rent hitting my bank account to do the refinance.

I have replacement value insurance, so when my 10 year old roof was hit with hail, they covered the entire cost.