(reps = repetitions)  Estimating costs is one of the most difficult aspects to all improvement-driven real estate investing. 

Recommendations:Look in surrounding markets that may not be experiencing the same appreciation in price as yours.Consider a lower price point property in your market where you could add a bath, bedroom, or other improvement that would allow you to flip it into a higher price point.Wait it out...what goes up, goes down. 

And if you can charge a little more rent your improvements will pay for themselves. 

Perhaps the usage is high and with a few small fixes/improvements you can bring that number down significantly.

This property was a value-add opportunity.Can improve property, increase rents, and cashflow nicely.

What would be reasonable, would be the city insisting on certain improvements be made to bring the structure "up to code" in a reasonable timeframe, or change the code to accommodate the person and structure in question. 

The lender can then order a Rapid Rescore, and within 3 days, your scores will be improved. 

The result was either dramatically reduced or eliminated EMFs, and improvement in patient conditions.

There's a couple of sections in there dedicated to cost effective ways of improving a home to improve the ARV and some different pointers on materials too.

If it is a purchase loan you'll need 25% down; otherwise they will be looking at the lower of the appraisal or purchase price plus improvements and then finance 75% of that.