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The city’s macro picture is improving with steady population pockets, job growth, and revitalization projects, and even small, well-managed rentals can generate positive cash flow while giving long-term appreciation potential.

Most cost seg firms will give you a free estimate if you share basic property details - no commitment needed.For residential STR properties in the $500k-$1M range, check out room42.io - they're built for this exact use case and the cost is low enough that you can run studies on multiple properties to dial in your estimates without breaking the bank.

For those, all I do is delete a "projected" value from a row and maybe update the date if it didn't occur when I expected it.

Some basics I like to learn are where are they from, where are they currently working/living (I'm interested in possible personal connections), what do they currently own, how much do they have ($$$) for a down payment + closing costs, are they pre-qualified, etc.

Once you get it permit-ready, you can get a construction loan, but construction loan lenders want to make sure you are qualified and can execute the project competently since construction has things go wrong a lot.  

New leases: Basic Plan - 50% one-month of rent.Property put on our website, Zillow family and Go Section8Premium Plan - 10% one-month of rent.Property put on all of the above, total of 37 websites (some manual entry) and MLSRenewals: $200 flat fee

Agarwal has promoted the idea of crowdfunding real estate which is basically how Nitya Capital operates.

I found some PM contracts basically make it harder to leave than to stay, even when performance is bad.

Their CPA can help them with a basic cost seg on that.But for larger complexes, yes, it definitely makes sense to pay a cost seg engineering firm for their services as it can result in significant tax savings.