From there if you can raise rents 2% per year (or bill back for utilities and/or generate other income) and expenses are held in line by year five your cash flow should look like this:Rents and GOI are up 10%, Taxes and Insurance bumped to show expenses up 11% and NOI up 9%.

A % of the raise?

They just raised $10M and are looking to change the way people buy/sell homes.

It's a raised ranch sfr we are buying for $350k.

It shouldn't raise any red flags for the seller.

Your draw to fire time is also pretty slow until you have built the muscle memory.

You could also wholesale the ones you don't want, to raise funds to buy the ones you do.

Define strategies for how you could get the money (you can find lots of discussion on raising capital on BP) and estimated costs for various items.Look around your area for finished retail homes to see what styles and finishes are popular and what is selling in your area.

On a  $ 200K house it would have to be some pretty good landscaping to raise the price 30 to 40 thousand .

The building being run down would be ok, as that can create an opportunity to raise the value once you purchase, but the entire neighborhood is run down and that can't be solved by one good property.