This can be worth it with a good service provider.4) Then double check and see if the carpet is still smelly (when your nose is close).

If you end up starting with photos and videos for rehab estimates, definitely plan for additional costs for things you can't see with your own eyes (and can't smell with your nose)! 

We are looking to get back into the real estate world and we realized as opposed to venturing out outside of our area, our best investment property option may be under our nose.

I keep seeing commercial real estate is going to take a nose dive.I have been thinking of opening a retail business.

It's do your research, do a drive by, and if you are daring, put your nose to the windows and see what you see.  

Makes me wonder if their hard nosed stance and lack of willingness to budget on purchase price is pride or delusion.

It's going to take living cheap and keeping your nose to the grindstone finding a property that can work.

Your tenant will then be living in an apartment that continues to slowly decline, then they do decide to leave and you are now paying through the nose on deferred maintenance in an attempt to attract a good quality tenant.....

Depending on how frequently you study, you can be licensed within as little as 3-4 months if you put your nose to the grindstone. 

Because I am worried otherwise he'll bill me through the nose for unnecessary repairs.