What would it cost to get from the present state to the future state?

Something like a rehab loan that would based upon future value and would cover the purchase, fix up, costs, and sometimes payments.

So let me just expand for the BENEFIT OF FUTURE READERS and other newbies who think having a "mentor" is the be all and end all to becoming an investor.Why would you agree to a purchase price of $198K in a neighborhood of $90K to $145K houses?

Was the building a conversion or purpose built as that will impact future repairs.FL has some weather issues.

Or are you expecting to capture their details so you can remind them in the future that you are there and interested in buying when they are ready to sell?

Look forward to working with you and building that Business Relationship here in the near future.

Looking forward to hearing about your future successes.

If there was another project they wanted to get started on they might be motivated to cut the price, dump the property and then move to the next deal rather than lose out on the future deal.John Corey

I want to see what the property values are now and in the past so I can get an idea of the apprecition in the past to try and determine what it could be in the future.

In the future though, please refrain from using such big words like "veritable", as it may confuse some us!