Some of the people who come to ask one question will be impressed with the quality and speed of answers from this site and become active members.

I only buy in 3 zip codes so I am pretty up to speed on what listings have dropped in price, which houses need work, which houses are under-valued.

Rehab about $20K (plus an extra $130 for the speeding ticket I got driving to the house the first time) with an ARV of about $140K.2.

Our business model is based on speed.

Then we hit some non RE related financial speed bumps and had to slow down a bit.

With the help from BP I now think I can speed this process up.

G-D SPEED.

I prefer to let my property managers communicate with most of my tenants; however, I like to work with my local section 8 tenants to speed up the process.

Quite the opposite, most of the dollars I put into a property are yielding more than a dollar in resale value, so many dollars are actually CREATING my profit.In additions some of the other dollars are put in not to improve resale value by 1 to 1, but to speed resale time.I would say that in a well-managed rehab, few dollars that are put in come straight out of your profit.

Oil could go both ways because as the dollar rises, oil should fall, but if the economy speeds up demand will increase.