Get your cash (tax free) and eat your cash-flow too.

I think a seller would eat your lunch if you were to tell them exactly how high you'd go.

If I pay my foreman $30/hr, I’m lucky to go out the door of an at-cost of $45/hr, I got to eat and keep the lights on too so per hour rates here won’t even come close to me.

And you said you had to eat December rent , so that wiped out , what ?

@Joe Villeneuve, Ok I came up with two different takes on your number; 1) Its how many bytes in a gigabyte2) It is also 2 raised to the 30th powerIn the meaning of #1 I relate it to the question "How do you eat an elephant?

Need some advice here on pest control.This is the third time in two years that I have to pay a professional pest control company to come treat and bait for roaches, specifically German roaches.Last time the tech told me German roaches are "brought in".Since they are otherwise good tenants for four years I decided to eat the cost of $300 each visit.Year 1 and 2, never ANY issue. 

Possibility of higher repair costs: i.e. an overflowing bathtub on a high floor may require repairs to several unitsHigher turnover rate - turnover is costly because property must be cleaned and repaired, plus the legal and other costsVacancies take a proportionally larger bite from your incomeApartment complex investment Cons:Requires more secure financing when more than four units, including higher down payment and reservesManagement fees eat into profitsVulnerable to a downturn in the community, since all units are in a single placeRelatively illiquid investment, costly to dispose ofPossibility of deadbeat tenantsFrequent turnover

That stuff will eat your hands right off your wrists

you seem to be in a similar situation I'm in. what I did was take pictures and video of the place on my initial walk through, sent that to a GC and had him give me a "conservative ballpark" estimate. that way I knew what my offer had to be. asking price 90kARV 180-190KRehab est from GC 52kRehab est in my #'s 67kmax offer 67kstarting offer 60kIll be making the offer this week so we'll see how it goes. if I can get the contract then I'll have inspection, and 2 to 3 full bids done by GC'S to solidify numbers. if the GC are worth their salt then those bids should be accurate. if the numbers don't work at that point then back out using home inspection contingency (if possible) or finance contingency, or if you have it in the contact a "approval of buyer" contingency. or just eat the earnest money deposit loss. good luck.

Now, if its not in your lease regarding who is responsible for exterminator fees then you may have to eat that cost.