What I'm looking to do is not have a bulging envelope with all my stupid receipts and take a picture or scan them in and associate it with the property the expense took place at.

Hi Everyone,I was scanning deals today and noticed a single family property that I thought might be a good candidate to have a seemingly redundant living room converted to a studio apartment. 

OR, when your "gut" (or any other body part) is telling you to do something else... just do that, don't bother modifying the tree...  

Ryan - The White House banned the media from showing the caskets of American dead because people don't like to see dead bodies in war.

Thanks for the perspective.As for developing: 1) Make sure your money is solid (you don't want to run out midstream or if a delay occurs...and something always delays you)2) Get to know your local governing body (County Commissioners, Building Dept., etc)3) Don't overpay for the land.

A followup thought...All of the topics discussed on these forums are regulated by one government body or another.

My wife is comming in as a jag lawyer, and just begging her to get into REI so i can have someone right at home to do deals.anyways, I'm going to check tomorrow when people get back to see if I have fax capabilities, but I do know that I have scan abilities so I could try the faxing where you do it over the internet, gotta figure that one out.I have a contractor and a real estate agent that I trust and have worked a few deals with, so im guess I could have probly both them check it out, and throw em some money.

Heading- $20000 / 3br - Investors wanted for 30K, 40K, & 50K houses Body- Dear investors, I have a number of properties in RI and the surrounding areas for investors.

thats why i have a real estate attorney, who, if you think about it, has as much or more on the line than i do. if it isn't a contract assignment or a double close, it's always been the lawyers idea of doing the deal this way and i would doubt any governing body would find objection to doing business like this as long as all parties involved know exactly whats going on (full disclosure), the funds are accounted for on the HUD1 form and the birddog isn't representing anyone in the deal, which they are not.shady, noillegal, not around herecreative, to bureacrats maybeyour other option - make the birddog assign a contract to you.

IF you are willing to live a bit outside of Bridgeport but still on SW side in decent mobility areas - I would recommend considering Cicero or Berwyn for a house hack where the #s can work well.