Therefore Bill & Jane's vacation house in the Hamptoms or the ABC Company tenant 10,000 SF commercial build out is ahead of your development.Robert- If you do have the correct Architect for your project, then the problem is: they aren't incentivized to change anything.

I have had to put students on a repair program to help them after doing this very thing.

Auctions are quite possibly the worst place to buy if you want to avoid repairs.

As with any insurance you need to weigh the cost of doing the repair yourself vs the cost of the premium payments.

Do they have a lot of repairs called in?

Purchase price: $169,000 Cash invested: $55,000 Property needed cosmetic repair.

Some owners delay repairs, underfund turns, and create headaches for tenants, which ultimately falls on you.

Purchase price: $169,000 Cash invested: $55,000 Property needed cosmetic repair.

So I always try to plan ahead, triple check my due diligence, and be VERY conservative with my underwriting.

The purchase may not make sense if the repair costs are too great, so try to find out as much as you can.3.