If you remember the TV show "Name That Tune" the contestants were given a clue about the song (market knowledge) and then to get the prize (property) they had to bid (cap rate) on how few notes they would have to hear to identify the song.

check out Dave's fileshare for some spreadsheets to help you with some estimates.truly identify what needs to be done or just schedule a contractor to walk through a prospective house with you and ask him a lot of questions.

It seems to come down to arbitrage ("pocket the difference") versus commission as the only tangible difference that I can identify (you know, aside from the pesky legal stuff like "is this legal at all?")

If you make up an Elevation Study, you can pay them to send it through a Quick Approval Path where all the different departments can take a look for any glitches and identify any questions that would need to be answered before they would sign off on you proposed plan.

When you work with her, you will feel her passion for real estate and discover that she treats every transaction like her own.Jing is here to learn more investment strategies so that she can better serve her clients, and she is interested in identifying rental properties for her clients and herself.  

I've seen too many people trying to hire me to do the automation for them when they didn't have their standard procedures in place and more importantly, haven't identified their buying criteria (besides "I'm looking for wholesale deals" or "I need rehab properties"); business goals, marketing budget and so on.  

Since that transaction, I made the decision that I would focus exclusively on wholesaling, learning how to market to find off-market deals, learning how to identify a true "deal", and I also made the decision to get my real estate license.

They take the guesswork out of real estate investing, and known for their ability to identify undervalued real estate and provide their investor clients with an investing System (bankers, lawyers, rehab team' and real estate brokers) to find, buy, remodel and then sell or rent investment properties.

HI Mike,Some banks allow a letter to be written identifying it a gift.

The primary goal of Cost Segregation is to identify all property-related costs that can be depreciated faster (typically over 5, 7 and 15 years) creating significant additional deductions over the next 5 years.The secondary goal of Cost Segregation is to establish the depreciable tax value for each major building component that is likely to be replaced in the future (such as roof, windows, doors, bathroom fixtures, HVAC, etc).