If you want to lose the JOB that most carry around like a ball and chain then get to work and make crap happen...

Am I frustrated with myself NOT yet.Our whole society is built around buying crap we don't need and probably wont use.

and once you find out his 'coaching' is a crock of crap.. he keeps your money.

There was crap everywhere and the smell that hit you the moment you walked in was enough to make my contractor walk right back out, almost about to throw up.I know you’re supposed to buy properties in bad shape, but this was REAL bad.Mistake #8: Not accounting for tossing out the junk in my costs Extra labor and three pulls on a 40 yard roll-off dumpster was needed to haul off all the junk that was left behind in the house.What I Learned – Account for hoarder houses in rehab costsI connected with my local REIA, and there was another investor who owns his own rentals and was helping manage a rehab for someone else.

Does anyone have a tutorial they would recommend? 

They want everything cut and dried, so that down the road if you default and FNMA is looking through the file for defects so that they can make the originator buy it back, then the bank doesn't have subjective crap in the file that they can't support.Obviously some things, like certain repairs, can be alternatively capitalized and depreciated over time.

You can find a cheaper contractors at $40 per sq ft but it reminds me of playing craps at the casino.

I am now closing on my second property - this one in Yukon, OK.Even through all this COVID crap, my tenants are paying (and prepaying a month in advance) and i'm getting contacted by my account rep at REI to check in and see if I need anything as all is well on their front.As for CA, don't get me started...

Sometimes they will be move in ready, other times you need a Hazmat suit to clean out all the crap(literally) in the house.

I love what I do for the crap that I'm told.