Are you comfortable with your methodology?

Following his prescribed methodology I purchased my first investment property within 90 days and have turned many people onto it since.  

It wouldn't be crazy to agree to pay more than the appraised value, but that methodology can be taken to an extreme (and often is with turnkey companies dealing with OOS investors) because . . . they know they can?  

In the meanwhile he keeps selling subscriptions and grabbing the condos for himself and there is no real methodology to ensure his lifetime customers or customers regardless of what order they come in get the deals.  

"Getting Things Done" (aka GTD) - check out Podcast 117 with guest David Allen

No judgment on those who use them or who use their methodologies - they're just not for me!  

I could add fuel to the fire but even without these two political powers, the fed method of calculating inflation itself is wrong, they only ask people via survey, that's the way they manage an 2023 economy with the same methodology of 1970s.

Can't vouch for the methodology one way or another but makes sense since rentals are less liquid.Ofc how things play out on a specific deal is another story. https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/134/3/1225/5435538?

A good cost segregation study is engineering-based, the IRS' preferred methodology.

If you're still learning and this is your first flip, or if your ARV will not pass muster according to USPAP appraisal methodology, don't waste your time trying to work with Lima One, just take the 12% and 3 points from a bottom feeder HML.