Great alternative to hard money and can be quite a "safety net" to conventional bank fallout. 

Parents like safety, proximity, price and convenience for child.

Each dwelling must have at least one room measuring at least 120 square feet; and all other habitable rooms (excluding kitchens) must be at least 70 square feet.

I can understand the steps from a safety standpoint, but there's no structural significance in this spot in front of the garage as far as I can tell, but it was listed as something I needed to repair in order to keep my insurance with them. 

Its got every demographic measurement you could imagine along with some helpful tools when it comes to adding these things to a professional presentation.

If it was a "good wholesale deal," as that is typically measured around here, that means you'd be screwing your mom and giving a great deal to the buyer.Let the listing agent do her or his job and market the property properly, for as much money as possible, for your mom.

If you assumed that cap rate is somehow a measure of performance or profitability of a property (i.e. the higher the cap rate the more profitable the property is) then yes, it would seem weird, anomalous, backwards for cap rate to go down when income stays the same and value goes up.

However, there is safety in numbers!

the whole triplex is exempt.main ballot measure that impact us is the date in which rent control applies to buildings and how capex is passed through.  

Is that fine or is that a safety hazard?