Its really a necessity if there is no garage.  

If there are few sales, then by necessity the area needs to expand. 

It is "Implication" and not prescriptive or necessity. 

But, on the content side of things... it's been really interesting seeing the data come in from our 500+ members... and we're continually testing and tweaking things to make the system overall more effective for members.We actually have 4 different rotations of "stock content" for each type of website, we "personalize" each website with location specific info for their market, their company, etc...... their title tags are optimized for their local market, etc.I'm an SEO guy by necessity... because over the years I had to learn SEO to get traffic to my own websites... and I have a full-time SEO team here at Carrot...... and duplicate content has come up more than once as a potential concern.The other real estate investor website systems out there give every member the same content (no matter what area they invest in).

If you see a scope that just has paint, carpet and changing a few light bulbs, you know they didn't do anything more than the bare necessities.

While I use a Self Directed IRA to buy income producing real-estate I do it by necessity. there are many tax advantages I miss out on doing it this way.Investments that look fantastic on paper have a way of not looking so good when you actually acquire them .

I think it is useful to help judge the credibility of a post without the necessity of leaving the page going to a members profile.

These are normally necessities like medical care, food and shelter.

Is it really a necessity to offer any earnest money if you are dealing directly with the bank?

LLC, LLP, S-Corp, etc), but its not a necessity for wholesaling properties.