I do realize that many have made decent money at the very low end of the market, but that takes quite a strong stomach, and I believe also was a function of particular market conditions which aren't likely to exist again any time soon (IE these properties got absolutely crushed in the downturn of a decade ago and were picked up for a song.

The search function has been added back into the new app, along with the Newest Forum posts. 

Of course this is also a function of us avoiding a direct hit from a major hurricane...

Explain that your function in the real estate investment cycle is to spend a lot of time and energy to market to potential sellers, weed through the valid prospects, successfully negotiate the price, and market to find an end C Buyer.

You walk the house and the foundation, electrical and plumbing all seem to be functioning properly.

You can set up keyword specific to your area and this way you can be automatically notified anytime someone posts about the areas near you.I'd also go to the search function and look up people in your area.

While our VR functions as a nightly rental, we wanted to "do the right thing" after the fires and offer the home to fire evacuees.

There are good reasons to have a local agent working for you though, they might bring you deals you missed or where otherwise unaware of they also ideally can function to double check everything to make sure everything is handled correctly and finally the very best agents also have great relationships with vendors and can help you through the whole process. 

Been an owner for 4-5 years, learned quite a few things already, among which is that a commercial kitchen is not something to be made or modified lightly - it has to be properly designed and properly made in order to function well.So I have this retail store of about 1100 sqft that someone wants to take for a small coffee shop with the ability to bake.My question is where do I start searching for someone to design/compute small walk-in cooler, grease trap, vent-a-hood, stove and HVAC on top of that so all this could become useable without anyone getting burned.From my past experience I have local mexican crews who can do any and all of the listed things and they'd do them relatively well except they won;t ever be designed to actually work well together.On the other end of the spectrum I've worked with american general contractors and they tend to cost 2-3 times the Mexican crews and, at least in my case, ended up delivering about same end result (in all fairness it was only kitchen remodeling, not design from ground up; but statement stands valid and I was able to later do almost the same at literally third of the cost).Your expertise is appreciated.

A working roof is a working roof - if the roof is still functional and you don't think it will split open in a storm or fly away in a hurricane (when all bets are off regardless), just repair and build capital expenses.