Look for a good real estate investing roadmap, or you might be kicking tires for a long time!

MLS, FSBO, driving my "farm" looking for "not so hot looking" yards and exteriors, word of mouth, tired landlords etc, etc.The two worst sources were the first 2.

I am interested in getting started in REI and I am tired of floating with the idea.

I guess I hadn't expected anyone to hang onto each individual word -- I'll give you this one, because I knew as I typed it that it was not the accurate word choice, but it was late and i was tired.

Re your comment about showing on weekends, again, markets vary, but you really get a lot of "tire kickers" and nosy neighbors on the weekend.

tired of the rat race and rehabbing for investors anyone need a good honest hand shake sort of guy, if you have the cash i have the sweat and know howMy first time in post, sure hope i can do this, my luck ill git BILLED

Got tired of playing landlord, and realized the big money takes too long to get, so I started up a new style of investing.My background is really in programming, more specifically web based application programming with databases.

Charles wrote:Before, you wouldn't want to prematurally tie up the property without first knowing repair costsCharles is exactly right.

If you are mostly dressing up a tired property then there is more room to make money while still adjusting for the prevailing style.You happen to have a lot of equity.

Since we can't have a beer face to face, here's the next best thing (a couple virtual pints of Phat Tire beer: :beer: :beer: My treat!