We've used Rent-o-meter, but always use 3 sources.

Refurbished hard wood floors, door way trim and base board trim, updated appliances, furnished basement unit, new water main/water meters and a new concrete walk way.

Pay attention to the condition of the big ticket items like the roof, furnaces, and windows, and lastly check if they’re separately metered.

Even my "biggest issue" (a wide open water line dumping into my basement) was something I'd never expect (meter and water line itself were only 7 years old) of course happened on mother's day, but guess what, took about 3 hours and $1200 bucks to handle...all in all not a property breaker, but when you think about water in a basement it seems so scary!

Utilities & Electrical PanelsIf you eventually rent it, you don’t have to split utilities—including utilities in rent is common—but separate meters make future tenant disputes easier to avoid.Electrical panels typically cannot be in a private unit unless there’s a locked common area with legal access.

are they metered seperately?

One meter with shared utilities is never ideal but at that price it probably wouldn't be a deal killer for me.

Small multis are ideal to start, then layer in quality singles or more multis depending on deal flow.Value-adds that matter: rent-lifting turns (floors, paint, lighting, hardware, clean kitchens/baths); operational wins (metering, laundry, parking/storage, pet rent, RUBS where allowed); safety/structure first (roof, HVAC, foundation, electrical).BRRRR reality in higher-cost markets: full BRRRR is tough in Northern MA/Southern NH.

We built this database by systematically collecting and saving information every day as we reviewed potential properties.This process has given us valuable insights into what our target demographic—families with elementary school children earning $60,000 to $85,000 a year—looks for in a rental home.Here are a few things we’ve learned from our data (for the Las Vegas market):Families in this segment prefer single-family homes.They won’t rent homes on lots smaller than 3,000 square feet.Driveways need to be at least as long as a standard car plus about a meter to the sidewalk.

However, on the inside of our house it was far exceeding the normal ranges (normal was something like 700 particles per square meter and we had something like 1777 particles per square meter).