Still not a good deal by my standards.

If you are married and filing jointly that doubles to 500k.That is improvements but not standard maintenance, interest that was not deductible.

Would you suggest that I just apply for a standard loan for an investment property and continue to rent all three units?

I'm sure it varies from lender to lender but surely there are some standard guidelines they use?

Kay March: In our lease we explicitly require Tenants to obtain our consent prior top affecting any repairs or alterations to a property ... and in most instances we will insist they use our standard trades/service providers to carry out the work.

Go with either the tried and true 70% rule-of-thumb (and good luck with that in Los Angeles), or the more detailed approach taken by J Scott, or best yet, create a standard spreadsheet with estimates for all your expenses and back out from there.In the end, you’ll get your lunch eaten by using rote formulas without an understanding of either the actual expenses or an accurate way to predict them.

Sorry Sam Converting my metric to standards stumps me at timesI meant a 250 Sqm home isEquivalent to a 2691 sq ft.Ah!

My standards are high so if they meet it just have them give their reservation/hold fee to hold it.

I think that is standard.

I will say that I hold a pretty stiff standard of margin, more so than most flippers I know... so I pass on plenty of deals and tend to only go after the 'really juicy ones'