I saw one BP member say that the value of his RE portfolio also got creamed in the Crash and was also working back out of a hole as the Cycle of RE values found a bottom and was working its way back to a high.

Look we were all teenagers at some point in our life and experimented a little bit....but if you didn't grow out of it, it might be detrimental....I live in a NO POT state.....so what happens if I walk in and my tenant(s) have marijuana in the open and it smells like it?

This seem counter productive to me.Granted my budget range is bringing me to the cream of the crop of duplexes but they are nice modest properties.  

I suppose you can use a defaulted loan to carry ice cream, though I do not recommend it.  

Lee S. Have

We are back forth on white trim vs. off-white or cream.

Originally posted by @Jeff S.:Have

General contractors or smaller builders would shave off costs, and you will have no maintenance on a new rental construction for a number of years. 

David,One of your biggest problems with fixing up older homes in my part of TX is that a lot of the homes built in the 80's and early 90's have really narrow (like 24") doorways that enter the bathrooms, because of the configuration of the baths there is no easy way to accommodate the turn radius and entrance requirements for wheel chair access, so you will end up having to do a total gut on one of those properties.

So @Login George, yes, most of the duplexes, triplexes, and quads were built in the early 1900's. Having