You want to value to increase from what you paid for it (plus what you put into it for renos).

If you know someone who has the experience required to deal with the tense Oakland market please let me know.Cheers,Martin

The idea is to ease her worry of future increases in her current rent situation by letting her pay what she can afford toward this new house and I would cover the rest.

If you have conventional financing on any of your properties, and don't want to buy anything right now, using some funds to make "chunk" payments could increase cash flow pretty significantly!

Not great - but if you can find way to make the deal better (lower purchase price, minimize rehab, increase rents, get a duplex/fourplex instead of a SFH, then the numbers start making a little more sense.

If some of them will be done and increase competition among sellers by the time I'm ready to move in 8+ months then that would be great for me, and even if it'll be just a little longer than that, I'd be willing to wait if it would give me an advantage as a buyer.

We bought a foreclosure about 5 blocks from town center around 5 years ago, and have seen a 200% increase in value on that property.

Im hoping to increase this to at least to a firm $75 per door but preferably $100 per door.  

If so I would send them notice of a substantial rent increase and let them make the decision to move on their own.

We contacted our apartments and they want to increase our rate 30% for every additional day.