Trends such a military spending/deployments, time of year (school  months versus summer months), and commercial activity (Tech Center/Whole Foods) all seem to impact the rental market in Newport News to a considerable amount. 

A friend who had her Palo Alto, CA home rebuilt spend 2 years very much FT going to the planning, permit, contractor, inspection, even picking materials etc. 

Also, I've been looking into first time home buyer assistance programs.

Im not licensed but have a colleague who  is a RE broker and assists mr.

How do you all sort through the hundreds of listings to know which ones to spend more time on?

Im not licensed but have a colleague who  is a RE broker and assists mr.

Either just accept that they will smoke inside and plan to spend time and money getting rid of smokers residue if it will exceed the security deposit once they leave.

Most of the guys I know that work those markets and make any kind of money spend a bunch a month on marketing 5 to 10k easy.. then they usually have a person on their team that runs the leads and closes the deals..  

How much did you have to spend to get the property in shape to list and what were the expenses to find a new buyer and close? 

I see no reason to spend 6% to sell an asset, just to turn around and spend more money in fees to re-purchase another investment property.