We try to make sure the seller knows within 10-15 days max if we can perform or not, so they always can have another option.

You need to know the market well, have enough reserves for inevitable expenses, and closely monitor the asset’s performance.

I work in Denver (as well as Colorado Springs), and that city is performing very much like Ausitn.

I’m always asking how much a project costs when I hear folks talking about doing renovations, and I ask how their contractor performed.  

I recommend focusing on getting a great investment property and disregarding Section 8 in that pursuit because any property can be a Section 8 property, but a lousy investment is lousy regardless of having a Section 8 tenant or not.Section 8 will perform a basic functional and safety inspection for your units after you have an agreement with a Section 8 tenant and your local housing authority.

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So get your cash out and put into a good one, where that deal can recover the lost money and make more.You wouldn't keep putting chips into a bad hand in Poker, you'd fold. 

The IRS expects your cost seg report to be "factually intensive", "supported by corroborating evidence" and performed by a "qualified individual.”

It might help you out if you're a hammer swinger type guy who can produce workmen like quality results versus homeowner DIY results.Someone who has been in this business for awhile , and brings a lot more knowledge , and contacts to the deal we'll have a lot better chance at performing a turn around on the property then to someone who is new and inexperienced. 

A lot of people are better at interviewing than job performance.