If you do flips inside an s-corp (or LLC taxed as an s-corp) than you can distribute some of your income as salary and some as dividends.

We would love to start off with that being our technique, but we do not have the ability to come up with the money ourselves.

And then the newer electronic systems might have trouble-shooting indicator lights that help to diagnose the problem.Understanding how it works and some simple trouble-shooting techniques will help you determine whether the outage will be just a few hours or a few days; if not short you would then work with the tenant to see whether they need some electric space heaters or not (some already have their own).

If so, what techniques have you used?  

And this has to be more of a technique than a product.

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So funny to hear what people say sometimes, but well worth the effort.Keep up the good work and I am sure tons of rehabbers could benefit from this technique.

After you learn the basics then you can listen to all these folks and listen to the sizzle of the sale, the how to techniques that some use.Otherwise, you'll have things screwed up for years or fall into doing some flim-flam type deal.Read the forums, then the blogs, IMO

@Steve Might I use a variety of techniques.