This investor was also known in town for owning a 2015 McLaren 650s that he had traded in to his private lender to catch up on mortgage payments.

If you can hook up with a more experienced partner for your first few deals, the lessons learned are generally well worth the trade off / profit sharing. 

Hello everyone. I read a great article recently regarding cash for keys and how its a cheaper and less time consuming process but then it provoked this question I now ask here. Wouldn’t this process be like harvesting...

Any return is possible but involves trade offs.If you are saving for a purchase, it is normally best to keep it in a low risk account to keep you on track for said planned purchase.Some people like to keep their cash reserves in index funds.

Upper is 99.9% ready, so will see some income soon.Lower needs all trades to finish bath and kitchen.

in high-appreciation, low/no cash flow properties to generate large sums of cash to do something else with (market/gold/bitcoin/beanie babies/whatever), you should probably take your profits and sell.

Now the different trades are coming in to to review all the different areas (electrical, HVAC, plumbing etc.). 

I am a property damage estimator by trade so I believe that will help on my journey.

Since you are talking duplexes, they will trade based on comps not rents, so knowing the lease rates is sort of irrelevant right now. 

Hello,First post here!My aunt and I are looking to buy a tri-plex that is just a shell. New roof, new windows, just studs inside. I called the city permit department just to check what was required for finishing the p...