New modern lights and ceiling fans, quality furniture, Big screen TVs (not so expensive anymore), big washer and dryer, one of those cool refrigerators.If you ever go stay in a nice hotel or nice airbnbs, try to pick up on some of the things they do to make it feel luxurious. 

Not sure what you purchased it for, but I'm guessing it will cover it.As you may be able to tell, I've not a fan of immediately 1031'ing.  

I'm not a huge fan of hard money lenders either but sometimes they work out.

After having experienced the California lifestyle–which I am not a fan of, in case it wasn’t clear–I am wary of approaching market at risk of “Californication”. 

If nothing else I take responsibility for that and will work to improve our communication systems between our franchisees, client success and sales team that's valid.As I have done before I'm a big fan of transparency and this forum, and will happily talk to anyone that has concerns about how we do business.

Also, great note about the industry leveling out - this is something that we try to explain to our clients frequently too! 

I'm not a fan of the referral industry and you are right about being biased.

Hi Holly,Here here.I'm not a fan of debt either lolWe loose 90% of business because we turn down turnkey investors looking to finance.The reason is mostly two-fold:1) Our price points are low entry and we have the luxury of not being volume focused so we just refuse to deal with closing delays when it comes to selling via financing.2) I don't believe in leverage when first starting to build a portfolio.

I do this frequently, it's a great tool for my out of state buyers - BUT only with buyers that have a signed buyers brokerage agreement and I've talked to their loan officer (or seen a bank statement). 

also for cars, don't trade them in frequently.