Lumber liquidators has unfinished oak for .99 an sf but if your enviroments humid or hot, or damp you NEED machined like above, this is thick real hardwood and those environments expand and contract it so much it is a nasty problem.PAINT TIP:Interior exterior paint king?

So here's the million dollar question--how does this recessionary/collapsing financial environment affect what you guys are doing with respect to RE investing?

Paneling is so dated looking but if it will save lots of money long term then I would absolutely consider leaving it up, which I had never considered until I read that post (the one where the poster said that tenants like to live in dark environments:))This is a lower-end building I should add but I still want it to look as nice as possible.Any thoughts would be appreciated.

I believe it is enough of a challenge to provide tenants with decent housing and a reasonable living environment.

Is it because you like the low cost of funds in today's environment?

In addition, private lending offers repetition in our current environment and probably will for some time to come.My wife and I have been loaning money to local rehabbers successfully as a part time business in the LA area for some time now.

Here's another potential dilemma: you find a tenant (may be tough with them going into a hostile environment) and then they refuse to move on time.

We have a "webdav" collaborative environment at my day job, so I can use that in combination with goodreader to store documents and books.

In a time where we have the best prices in a generation on SFRs, along with banks reluctance to lend on small less-expensive properties, and investor's frustration with equity markets and low bond/CD yields creating a conducive environment to offer them something vastly better, I can't think of any topic that would potentially be more important to those trying to build a portfolio of 1-4 unit properties to critical mass.I am in the process of putting together the materials I plan to use for discussions with prospective private lenders, and it seemed a great opportunity to have a robust discussion on what others are doing, and engage in idea-sharing.What works for you?

:cry: In a normal investing environment (i.e. fix and flip or buy and hold investing) margins are generally very thin.