I will continue to upgrade it as renovations take place in piecemeal fashion, although if I ever go to sell it I will make sure none is left before it gets put on the market.It is something that you can negotiate a lower sale price with.

Or would you rather spend $1000 to buy a course off of somebody like Graham who will teach you how to do it in 10 hours, in a nice organized fashion?

Make any repairs as necessary in a timely fashion, inform the owner if the expense is highI would think that if your current property management company is doing these basic functions then they are doing their job. 

Successful small biz folks, tech start up peeps, tech people at large firms (stock options = Chaa-Ching), wealthy foreign buyers, forced appreciation investors like me, etc.And speaking specifically for the SF market market, I can't say enough about how the cash flow grows. 2BR Units I rented in the fashionable Mission District in 2010 for $2200 are now at least $3600.

If you're actually helping a seller market or are helping a buyer find properties in an organized fashion, that can certainly be construed as infringing on the territory of real estate agents.My guess is that you COULD cross the line as a bird-dog, but that unless/until you were hauled into court, it wouldn't be clear if you actually did...

If I can finish the building six months faster than stick build, that will equate to several hundred thousand dollars in additional revenue, that I could never recover if I built it the old fashioned way.

A CPA with RE experience and small business experience will get you on a good foot so you can move forward in a positive fashion.

I will try to put up a few clips in a general fashion that should be ok, but give a general idea of how the conversation is going.Bill

Tom A brings up a good point, IF you can work closely with private lenders and HML's in the fashion he describes, you can certainly make your financing offer much stronger than others, but again, you should not be stating it is all cash, it is not.

In typical fashion of BRRRR, I tried to get the property refinanced at 75% ARV.