And yet, a few months in, costs creep up, timelines stretch, communication gets messy, and stress replaces confidence.

Now to be fair the company we are funding is a Civil engineering firm with deep experience..

ARV Doesn’t Matter Until the Rehab Is RealisticToo many investors reverse-engineer their deal:ARV × 75 percent = “My max offer.”Then they plug in a rehab number that magically makes the deal look good.The problem?

I would need to check the books and then propose a price.I get the “AI will replace bookkeepers/accountants” argument, but I think it misses the core reality of what accounting actually is in practice: It is constantly a gray and depends on context that rarely lives inside the transaction itself.A bank feed line item is just a line item.

No industry, no engine for growth.My advice is to look at urban cores like Sacramento and invest where the action is.

My advice seeing what she's going through is to get a structural engineer.

I came to that conclusion for my own portfolio and had Cost-segregation guys do the engineered study.

I'd encourage you to check out ours :) There's also a link to my pricing engine at my website link below in my signature. 

The big risk items are setbacks zoning coverage and any structural work or foundation work that was done without engineering.

The engineered study matters because it's your IRS defense for those numbers.