What the CAP rate is at any one time or any one market varies.There is still plenty of room for prices to vary based on what someone things they are dealing with (are the numbers real) and if they see room for improvement (change or use, upgrades, stabilize the rent roll if there is a high vacancy factor).Note that you rarely get actual expense number.

Allow me to answer this in his absense---this very issue is currently being mulled over by the bureaus with the intent of disallowing the authorized user allowance (the origin of seasoned tradelines)...Regards,Scott Miller Originally posted by "**********":Here is my 2 cent’s on the issue:Now, I notices that the company mentioned can sell you seasoned ”shelf Corporations” with potential of improving your ability to get financing.

Will you make any improvement in the property?

There are several factors that influence your actual ROI when discussing improvements.

Is there some standard calcuation that investors use to estimate how much the value of a property will increase after they make certain repairs and improvements?

Now the value of the building has been improved by changing the use.

That's whatever you paid for it plus fees paid when you buy plus any improvements you made.

We've been looking into improving our moderation abilities here (software-wise).

It could be that the local authority will force the improvements to be taken out and the building converted back to the original state.

Then you can use less time and more wisdom to improve your deals.Good hunting.John Corey