With Airbnb and VRBO boosting your property for the first few weeks to "test" it, listing right before Spring Break is a GREAT chance to get your property boosted to the top of searches right away!

It's essential to know these standards for your area as they will influence your rent pricing.3.

I considered using my outlandishly deep knowledge of the Cleveland market to add a subjective overlay in cases where the data seemed skewed by something like a subsidized senior citizen high-rise (dragging down incomes, homeowner rates, etc. and therefore causing an undue hit to the area's grade... think the apartment buildings on Clifton in Edgewater for example) or a semi-fancy newer development surrounded mostly by rather dumpy older stuff (pulling up incomes, homeowner rates, etc. and therefore causing an undue boost to the area's grade... think Mill Creek off of Turney for example) but I decided against it mainly because I didn't want to allow subjectivity into it at all and then get accused of encouraging discriminatory practices or any bs like that.But... at the end of the day James you do have that first mover advantage (and I commend you for making the map in the first place even though I disagree with some of your assessment), so you'll likely continue to get the majority of the traffic, at least for the foreseeable future.

In some ways they're easier, in other ways they're harder, because their negotiations can often be influenced by their emotions.Happy to help more, feel free to ask questions.

I won't even look at it anymore, lest I might be influenced by what it says.  

All real estate is local, but often local customs become outdated due to other influences, such as financing laws, tax code, accounting requirements and your local circuit court judges and local attorneys may not be aware of such changes, that's often the case. 

Hi Noel,I have just bought my "four plex" also (duplex with non conforming basement suites) for 600k, it was also recently renovated where the previous owner put 70k into it, since I got it I was able to boost the rent up substantially for the vacant main floor when I purchased it, (main floors to be 1550 was easy to rent out and alot of interest, basements could be 950 but I will have to wait until their leases end to propose this) garage is 200.

We just redesigned our website, https://heliosvacations.com/, through Boostly last month so I'm hoping that will lead to more direct bookings.

Focus on high-impact areas like kitchens and bathrooms, but avoid pouring money into features that won't significantly boost resale value.2.

Hi David,When I am first evaluating a deal to see if it's worth pursuing I use the 70% to 75% Rule.MPP = (ARV x 70 up to 75%) - RepairsBased upon MY EXPERIENCE estimating repair costs on hundreds of projects I can generally look at a property and know a rough range of what I would spend on the repairs to help me quickly analyze a deal.If I determine if the property is worth pursuing, I will walk through the property and perform a detailed analysis of all project costs and put together a detailed estimate of the repairs.So here's the tricky part for newbies, unfortunately, there is really no easy way of 'getting close' on repairs if you don't know what to look for or know nothing about construction, repairs or costs...There are many factors that can influence repairs costs and it can be very dangerous to ask other investors how much they pay for things because their circumstances can be substantially different from your own.