I have experience with house hacking and am an interior designer by trade, I am very ready to start flipping homes in my area of Asheville, NC. 

Which has been designed this way and is working to get adoption by the banks to replace the SWIFT system, which is dreadfully inefficient. 

This is not true of properly-designed, maximum over-funded life insurance policies.

Sometimes the HOA can cover capital expenses like roof and exterior, so that can help cash flow as well, but the HOA might increase the dues when they have to pay for capital items.

When a tenant moves out, transfer the deposit back to Checking so it's ready to apply towards expenses or refund the Tenant.If you end up with excess funds in the Checking account, I recommend you transfer it to a third account designated explicitly for future investments.

CRS is certified residential specialist and it’s the highest designation a residential agent can get.

Some of the properties could be better off in both exterior condition, as well as units rented (which is currently probably at around 50% or less). 

It’s designed to get rich slow, but it does get there.

Does the design change load bearing walls?

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