Quit TV and social media not time with your kids.Here's what I'm thinking of doing:1) get a regular income producing 9-5 job and be miserable for awhile.

Use that time to get accurate cost estimates.If the seller refuses, then you should either back out of the deal or over-estimate the cost of repairs and look for a price reduction of that amount.Decide in haste, repent at leisure.

Rather than have them text us at their leisure.2018 Goal: Complete renovations on two current properties.

Thats what they do on TV!

My focus is buy and hold.I study, read, and listen to podcasts and videos passionately( havent watched more than a few hours of tv since the day I began.I did get a real estate license and hung them with a broker, here in Atlanta.

But my tenants are pipefitters (they can change a hot water tank), boilermakers (can change a hot water tank with their eyes closed), electricians (can replace a fuse box with a breaker box), electrical crews (can wire a 2 story house for cable tv), scaffold builders (can trim a tree with a pole saw), welders (can replace the factory exhaust with a custom stainless steel exhaust on a riding mower), construction foreman (can add a bathroom counter and vanity).

And the flights aren't horrible with the kids...they just stare at the TV monitors until they fall asleep!

Well, not really "Personally" - but it was on TV...

That can not happen by definition, that thinking comes from TV gurus who lie.The value of your property is what you paid for it, regarless of what your preceive the value to be.

It takes a cool head and steady hands and doesn't always come with a happy ending like on TV :-)Your brother done good~!