The area between Fort Myers and Naples is growing at a phenomenal rate and there may be opportunities there, Estero was just incorporated and is the first new city in the county for 15 years.

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The monthly fee can either be billed to the tenant directly or can be incorporated in the rent.

High(er) end laminate flooring, granite counter tops, porceline/ceramic tile in bathroom.  

Incorporate correctly (Hire a lawyer if you don't know how).

Boston Wealth Builders is another good one typically done in Dorchester/Boston, and presents topics that are useful to beginner investors (incorporation, finding the right lawyer, etc.). 

Thanks Phil, I'm getting ready to renew contracts and I think I'm going to incorporate Justin's maintenance idea with your quarterly check up program.

Well are you incorporated or not yet .Here in Indiana you can not register a dba unless you are incorporated.

Otherwise, you probably will have to send over your Articles of Incorporation for your LLC to the Plaintiff attorney to prove who you are and that you have an interest in this property and case.  

Bringing in the extra dirt to raise the lot also required a Soil Engineer to be ONSITE for several days to test the compaction of the soil as we lifted the site, and also some additional heavy machinery that we don't normally run across...like a "Vibratory Sheeps Foot" which kinda sounds like something you would find at one of those trucker stores...After a hundred and twenty something loads of dirt, we were close...but not quite close enough, so we decided to stop bringing in dirt for the moment, and incorporate a SUBWALL into our foundation so that we could bring in dirt only for where out house sat and stop "bringing up" the whole lot.With the "development" portion almost done, it's time to go vertical!