Hello all,My name is Steve Wood and I am from Waynesboro, MS, the "garden spot of the deep south".I've been investing in Real Estate about 4 years now and I have seen some good times and some not so good times.

In some areas, it is cheaper to buy than the cost of putting up a new building, let alone systems development and permit fees.However, I do have a suggestion:Take that stream and develop it into a nice park-like area with gardening and benches and a couple of foot bridges.Then, you market like that stream is a huge asset, and you'll get buyers saying, "What a beautiful piece of property!"

It doesn't frame the door at all and accentuates the carport.Replacing/painting siding is too risky, so adding a tree to the left to hide the carport post and distract the eye would help.Adding a tall planter on the other side of the drive where your garden bed ends would help as well.Or a hanging planter off of the two posts - driveway left and porch left.Rick

RE requires attention, like a garden.

We'll remind them of things that need done (hey, you have some garden tools you keep next to the house.

It takes all of 5 minutes with a gentle soap and garden hose.  

But I maintain it's the garden beds we provide more than the solar panels that makes the sale.

I pay for pool and landscape monthly service for my tenant on my SFH. Do other landlords do that, and if so do you include the actual fee in the monthly rental or do you charge more for the convenience of the tenant n...

Our home is currently up for Home of the Year in the city of Garden Grove, California.

That yard is now a private paradise, a place where we can relax, grow garlic, and cultivate our spice garden, or at least it still would be if it wasn’t for the sound of my new neighbors’ barking dogs in the night, their cars left running even in warm weather until the exhaust fills my carport 10 feet away, the metallic clink of trucks be fixed in their carport at 10 pm and later, and the pungent smell of cigarette smoke that floats over the 3-foot tall wall separating our yards and into my front door.Unfortunately the 2005 real estate bubble trouble and the 2007-2008 subprime mortgage debacle changed our neighborhood by filling it with rental homes, many sold at auction for ridiculously low prices, and now owned by absentee landlords instead of owner occupants or local landlords.