It boils down to an attitude, a state of mind, emotion and a person of action.It takes courage, creativity and consistency to walk up to someone's front door and knock!

I am not trying to knock your interest just trying to highlight concerns .

So there was no knocking down walls and tearing up floors in this "rehab", but it was all stuff I could do myself.I used my own cash to do the fix-ups, and I'm trying to find a way to keep from using my own cash in the future.

Also how would I go about checking how much others in the neighborhood sold for short of knocking on doors?

Many people knock it because he didn't give them a step for step process as some books do but that was not really his intentions...He opened your eyes to be more then you could be and in my mind that far outwieghed the alternatives...

What about the old school grunt-work of knocking on doors.

Not knocking the few that are really good, just the many that are below average.I've done about 30 seller finance deals, in the old days on "wraps" on FHA and VA fully assumable loans.

I am not knocking Ron LeGrand as I love his books.

I do alot of wholesales and rehabs.I work with one main agent and we knock stuff out.

it's real easy for the wifey to say, "oh honey, i want a new kitchen floor" 6 months later, "oh this damn sink and bathroom, i hate it" and 1 year later, "what if we added another room, knock this wall down, and buy a new refridgerator...."