Do lots of people do this and I'm just in the dark, or is there some fundamental flaw with what I'm proposing?

You need to figure out what will make you happy...what happens if your RE investment goes up in smoke tomorrow, what then?

There's a lot of smoke and mirrors on this issue.

Dark grout though -YES!!

This varies from drip pans, CO and smoke alarms.

And I got almost a whole house left....what kind of person paints their entire house in dark red and green, and lime green?

Yet it seems to be this deep dark secret that no one knows about.Do you actually think I would steer my client to fill out an 11 page application with every single little detail of financial info to some idiot in Japan.Get Fukin real!

Run ups can be sustained and wound up through smoke and mirrors like investors buying up a bunch of pre construction homes and bad loan programs, but the affordability for new buyers to get into housing runs the market.

I must have been smoking some serious crack when I thought I could wrap up this "cosmetic " first rehab in 3 weeks for 12k...Complete la-la-land.

I agree, all Edwardian can look dark and dreary like Miss Haversham's house.