In retrospect, I wish I had converted. 

who in recent years have complained they  came home to find sheriff's dept snooping around their home looking for MJ to confiscate, when they found nothing, they still try to lift anything valuable like iphones, laptops etc and provide bizarre stories like 'WE CHASED A MURDER SUSPECT WHO FLED ONTO YOUR PROPERTY IN HIDING'. in retrospect, i find theres more '420 FRIENDLY' civilians, officials, etc, than there are not. perhaps even to officials its a quick way to make extra $$, crashing and siezing GROW OPS?

Now that I've come through the other side, my "analysis paralysis" seems ridiculous in retrospect.  

In retrospect, my financial situation starting out had no real bearing on the growth of my business.

House in a D neighborhood so we broke the comps and unfortunately had to drop the price a little when the appraisal came back lower than the offered price on the home but in retrospect there is no way we could have cut corners on any aspect of the rehab--it needed everything!

Alright...that is all done and I can move on...phew..So heres how the deal broke down.I paid 162K for the propertySpent 33K on the rehab which took 8 weeks.Closing, holding, and closing again cost a total of 16K.The property was on the market for about 3 weeks until I received a full price offer of 264K.The realtors got almost 15K.So my end of the day pure profit ended up at 38K.In retrospect, the deal was a little weak to begin with and my estimates were completely out of whack ( I estimated 12k on rehab and had comps of 230 - at least one blunder saved me from the other).

In retrospect I wish I'd had the patience then to complete more purchases.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year BP

January 1 will mark the 1 year anniversary of my business and the beginning of my real estate investing endeavor. My how time flies.

I wanted to take this opportunity to say t...

I heard nothing but good things about Cook's book so in retrospect you made a decent purchase but you can learn a whole lot here on BP as well.

Hello, my name is John and I am an undergraduate at Washington University in St. Louis. I have been interested in real estate from an early age (yes, seriously), because my parents made a good deal of money from the r...