OTOH if you are in a town that is being abandoned it could cash flow because you got it cheap, but may be bull doze material in a few years.

I'm going to start doing this.Also, another advantage of having the Lowe's card is a discounted delivery fee (and maybe rental truck fee as well).

I was wondering if you could tell me the best places to get cheap yet good quality products for: hardwood flooring, carpet, cabinets, granite counters, vanities, fixtures.

Full warranty materials and laborNow we rarely do work for flippers or low end rentals because we are not cheap ,we have looked at jobs for rehabs and have found that most ,but not all ,want top quality work at bargain basement prices , done quickly , and want to pay in 90 days .

Sorry, message got cut off:)Should we use wood as fence material ( maybe it's cheap and prevalent in Texas), or should we get another estimate for another material?

If the alarm goes off it alerts me and calls the police.I put a wireless sensor on the front and back door, then put a motion detector in a place someone would walk by,,,it cost a couple of hundred dollars, the monitoring is about $30 a month, but when I'm between projects I just have the monitoring shut down...Its very simple, about as cheap as I could find, and it works greatandy

I think you need to understand that you got yourself a house for so cheap because of the bad shape its in.

I'm trying to buy a cheap shop vac that I can use in case the condensate line on the AC backs up.

Before the previous landlord had odds and ends maintenance people doing it when they get around to it.I don't like this because sometimes the property looks good and other times junkie and unkept.A professional service is more dependable and runs like clock work.I had a lawn company come out that was not the biggest but not the smallest operation.There are 5 buildings of flat land situated each on about 1/2 acre to 3/4 acre.The lawn guy quoted 200 a month but wanted a year round contract.I don't like that as mainly most get yard work completed in the summer time.In the winter time and fall is mainly just leaf blowing etc.Even though these are 1/2 acre in size I feel that the work is minimal.Unlike a house where sometimes the land is hilly these are flat.Unlike a house which is mainly yard with a small driveway these building have a driveway with a parking lot.So the actual green space to mow is very small for each parcel.I just can't in my mind justify 2,400 a year for lawn maintenance.Wondering what others here do.I can't do it myself as I am very busy working with clients.For this one month I am having a contractor do it for cheap but not long term.

I guess depending on the numbers, you might want to have a cleanup crew come in to vacuum them up, maybe open certain areas, to vacuum.To kill them and eliminate them, go to a hardware store, or home depot has it cheap, get a container of boric acid.