One vacancy every 2-3 years would devour most, if not all, of the profits.If a person owned 20 of these houses, yearly income ($36,000) is about as as much as the manager of the local Video Rental store, but it comes with $1,000,000 in debt.15 years is long time to carry around a deal that is essentially all equity and bare minimum cash flow.

screens are required in Florida. most ACE hardware stores or family owned hardware stores will make them for around $14-$20 each.Lowes sells kits to make them yourself for about $12 each.

They have a brick and mortar store in downtown Portland too.

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I know that when I started out, I made a lot of trips back-and-forth to the property during renovation and also to the hardware store and then back to the investment property.

The best contractors don't often go to Home Depot and Lowes as much as to the supply houses--they know the materials are better quality and usually less expensive than some of the 'second quality' stuff the box stores sell.Good luck.

Years ago I used the 3P index... pawn shops, porn stores, and payday loans. .. too many too close and it’s still too early.

So it may be wise for you to get yourself educated for a bit first and put the money into a low-risk liquidatable investment or savings account for now.Lastly, I swear BP isn’t paying me to promote this book, but I did recently buy and listen to the Audible version of the BP Publishing book by David Greene, Long-Distance Real Estate Investing: How to Buy, Rehab, and Manage Out-of-State Rental Properties, which you can find on the BP Store or Amazon.

To Everyone Else: Thank you for the information and tips, I greatly appreciate it I will store it into my sponge I call a brain and use it for building/improving my real estate strategy.

You can buy the paint from them, or see if another supplier can cross-reference the numbers.Or, go to the bookstore, general store, or even the library, and find the magazine rack.