Next, I will send a blast text to all those phone numbers, not exactly sure which SMS software is the best, most cost effective but I believe I heard Batch can do the job (input here would be lovely!)

In most cases your neighborhoods are likely tied closely to their batch routes and you can do a nice marketing piece at $.176 per piece not counting the cost of the collateral.Good luck!

If it's not a lot and you really are stuck repainting instead of doing touch-up, resolve to make absolutely sure that this next base coat you lay on is very thick and can be repeatedly washed, scrubbed, and touched up successfully over a period of 20-something years.To my mind with my purposely limited number of rentals and my handyman abilities to do the painting myself or supervise general laborers doing it, this is a smarter way to handle turning rentals between tenants than handing over repainting to a fresh batch of guys with mystery paint every few years.For interior wall paint, I tend to use Behr Marquee and Behr Ultra.

I cannot speak for other markets, but their current batch of Atlanta properties, the numbers just won't come close to working based on what they are asking. 

I like to use the factory pre-mixed colors because I find they are much more consistent between batches,available in flat and semi and the better quality stuff $116 for 5 gallons, vs the cheap stuff that's $60 that peels/fails more often.Good luck!

There has been a lot of controversy about US sites like prosper and the like. http://www.my-personal-finance-blog.com/2007/01/15/prosper-sells-off-first-batch-of-bad-debts/ I think it is an excellent concepts as long as there is a good way to screen the person you are lending too or a better way of vetting "borrowers".

. - I don't know much about the property at the moment, it was part of a large batch of multi-families that I was looking through.

Going the "traditional" way of using the private investors I would break up these 17 properties into 4 chunks and buy them one at a time for "cash" and then get them refinanced...paying off my investors...and then buy the next batch until we had purchased all 17 over the course of 9 months or so.When I look at this though...it seems like my transaction costs will be much higher doing so many separate transactions (basically 17 separate acquisitions and then 4 blanket refinances with my credit union)Instead if I can convince my private lenders to put their money into a new LLC set up to specifically purchase these 17 properties.

Do you think that Mark Zuckerburg needs to run down and sign the application or swipe his personal credit card every time one of his departments needs a new batch of laptop computers from CDW? 

BUT, you have to take into consideration the following:1) Should be the same paint, from the same batch.