You can do some things to try and help the % in your favor but there are tons of things out of your controlI see quite a few people posting that have made it big with appreciation...... what I don't see is the people that lost their *** in 2008 when they jumped in at the top,  counting on the continued appreciation and it didn't happen.....and even worse the value dropped like a hot rock......lots of them but still crickets.....Can you make big $$ doing this?....

Right now, it's all about trying to build a rock solid foundation, and with the discovery of this site, I'm feeling confident that I have the right people in my corner.Thanks again for the advice.

Its a rock and a hard place in Los Angeles. 

Thanks Guys...BP rocks.

I went into it unsure, but he was a rock star!

Within 3 months at the government job I left because it was terrible, everyone was dumb as rocks.

Can you recommend any rock star residential agents in the area that I can pass along to him?

Never seems to matter whether I'm using a company with 40 Google reviews that are great or some company I've never heard of...its the dam workers...and these are B- and C+ properties.

There is a difference between ongoing repairs and repairs that have stacked up over the years as the seller has sucked out maximum cash flow and put a band aid on everything instead of properly maintaining the asset.

(from Seller's Agent):  Sellers have disclosed that units D,B and A located in the other building need repair.