I've gone back to the appraiser and asked him to re-evaluate.

Would this be a good rental property in the future and if so should that way into my evaluation on buying the property or not?

I do get the invoices though but they are choosing people to send out and do the evaluations.

I would encourage you to look at the rents and prices in the specific area you are looking at and compare your projected return with those returns to evaluate how good an investment you are making. 

I'm evaluating either partnering, finishing the project with funds present in my self directed IRA, or taking a distribution on the asset and moving it out of the IRA world.  

So I did the rookie move of taking the generic capital expenditure numbers from a book as a starting point for cash flow evaluations.

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I believe any working experience is good experience---doing book keeping for multi family will give you an idea of expenses and maintenance and other issues in order for you to evaluate deals better but it sounds like you are not planning on doing real estate full time so in that respect, I'd spend my time getting to understand numbers by mock evaluating properties, exploring and lining up conventional and creative financing and getting to know local realtors, wholesalers and investors who can not only find you deals when you are ready but teach you just through conversation.

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