@Rayanna Scott,It is as easy as buying a ticket at the gate, disregarding where your ticket is and heading to the .390 bar on the 3rd base line in the outfield.

If you do pass this gate though, the next question an HML will ask is your exit strategy.

My wife, the TAK president is really catching on!!!

In addition, we found out that the north beach area was a much tougher sell than south San Clemente, and since we were the first ones out of the gate with new construction it hurt us.

By the time we Close on a property we already know which tenants we wish to keep and which we will cut loose (and when).The advantages of Closing on a full building is you have a revenue stream out of the gate.  

Of course if you have only a $10k total rehab, that will typically take a bit longer than just a week, but when you get into the $100k and up rehabs, you want to be at or around $10k weekly.Time is your enemy on renovation flips as every week that goes by increases your holding costs (interest, taxes, insurance, maintenance, utilities, etc.) so when you can get to $10k completed weekly, you are saving money in holding costs.Another couple photos:Another additional item completed but not originally budgeted for was the new front gate, new cement at garage area, new gray fence on driveway and new black top coat on asphalt from street all the way down the driveway.

You do not say where this is at or how many units you own.Some of those areas in down town are just crap holes and that type of thing comes with the territory.If you have a large complex you could put up a gate with card access to keep the bums, trouble makers, and drug dealers from loitering etc. around your place and give the tenants piece of mind.Have you set up security cameras and street lights??

Now Realtors are no longer gate keepers. 

but not everyone shoots outa the gates like I have.  

Or just going for lease options, out of the gate??