Thank you, I look forward to hearing from you, have a nice evening, good bye sir.After you do a few calls you'll get your presentation down to an art form.

The 379 metropolitan areas surveyed were evaluated in nine categories: housing affordability (cost of living), transportation, jobs, education, climate, crime, health care, recreation and ambiance (museums, performing arts, restaurants and historical districts).

Our local one is great--the staff are super helpful, and you can buy both used (previously rented) and new furniture, at good prices.The fantastic thing I discovered is that you can get discounted packages on furniture and art for a whole home--or at least, everything for a one bedroom, to start.  

It was an art form to move it from card to card for 0 percent.

Appraising is an art and a science, you can't paint a master piece with a paint by numbers set.

Great question @J Scott This part is a bit of an art.

The "liberal arts" approach would be to tell you that sophisticated investing precludes buying either equity or cash flow - we create both, not buy them.A more mathematical answer would be to tell you that the 2 most applicable measurements of ROI are the cash on cash return (CCR) and the internal rate of return (IRR).  

Honestly, the real estate books that I've read gave me the runaround, instead of concentrated on the actual art of real estate investing.

Best of Luck, MikeThats exactly what I did, but all the walls were a 'cosmetic' Adobe finish.

My goal is to learn the art of creative financing (wholesaling really grabs my attention) and also purchase buy and hold properties to produce passive income so when I do retire from the Navy I am not stressed out because I didn't plan for life after the Navy.