I found the forums lacking on evaluating growth investments alone (perhaps this is more about "investing" than speculation).Please also let me know how to get my basics down on RE investing - references to books, CDs, online tutorials, whatever you think might help.

You're investigating for sloppy crap rehab work vs. the right way.

I have a contract Im getting ready to secure this coming weekend from a motivated seller and going to market the crap out of it and lease option it to a buyer...

Should I just wait - hoping I can change the locks - until he comes to retrieve his crap!

Forget the crap you hear about great wealth in RE, it takes years to get there.

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Crap for (3) parcels like this i would have bid on it.

It's a lot of paperwork to keep track of and unless you are a brokerage doing this you do not know how much crap the real estate commission makes you manage.

The day we evicted with the crew she had a ton of crap upstairs almost wall to wall.So on the low side you could spend 150 to 200 for filing, writ, and eviction crew but also by waiting until the day Marshall throws them out you could lose one to two months rent.

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