The best thing you'll get from some of the intros is a few useful materials that will whet your appetite for more information.Your money might be better spent if you can partner with a mentor or coach who can walk you through your first deals in exchange for a fee.

Here are the numbers:ACQUISITION (for purchase price, closing costs, lender costs, escrow costs): $434kREHAB (LABOR + MATERIALS): $102kREHAB TIME: 10 WEEKSHOLDING COSTS (MORTGAGE, STAGING): $16KSALE PRICE: $660KCLOSING FEES (Escrow, Taxes, Commissions): $58kPROFIT: $50KPURCHASED: MAY 2, 2017; SOLD SEPT 1, 20172.

App_...If the failure to comply with s.83.51(1) or material provisions of the rental agreement is due to causes beyond the control of the landlord and the landlord has made and continues to make every reasonable effort to correct the failure to comply, the rental agreement may be terminated or altered by the parties, as follows: (a) If the landlord’s failure to comply renders the dwelling unit untenantable and the tenant vacates, the tenant shall not be liable for rent during the period the dwelling unit remains uninhabitable.So Thomas S is wrong.   

So far I've enjoyed all the reading material.

It is very likely that materials and labor will go up.

That’s not what we signed up for.None of the materials we received had a specific company name to be in charge of this.

Rather I'd prefer to hold property and gain from it on a monthly basis.I know it's more complicated from that, which is why I want to learn.So basically, I'd like to know if you have any specific material for off-country investment, vacation property that may only work half the year (In Crete, I understand the island is not active during the winter), management, and biographies/success stories/mistake stories of such cases.I type as I think, so I might be all over the place, apologies for that.Thank you very much!

I would suspect that the cost of construction materials and labor are going to be going up rapidly in your market place.

Depends on the type of GC you're looking for.The guys picking up material early in the morning at HD/Lowes/Menards are unlikely to run a very tight ship or handle large scale jobs.

Seems like I have heard that you can make a rough estimate at labor, based on material cost (2-3 times materials = cost of labor).