He earned quick money as a wholesaler, and I have a house to keep)Rehab cost: $20k (vinyl floor, interior paint, new dual pane windows, new toilets and bathroom vanities, lights, new landscape, new AC condenser, all done by handyman, spent some extra money for minor plumbing and electric jobs, hydro jet sewer lines, clean up attic (had mice), added some insulationTime spent: 3 weeks (two handymen for the first two weeks, one for the last week)Value after repair: probably around $440kJobs still need to be done later: some dryrots, roof work (it's tile roof, roof doctor quoted me $9k, handyman said probably $5k, home inspector said $15k you can get a new shingle roof.

Jammed garbage disposals are a tenant responsibility and they should have paid the bill.Your property manager is going to suck you dry.

Getting a building permit is rarely a cut and dry process.

It was foreclosures in the beginning, once that source dried up we went hard on short sales.

In the first quarter, the fund was hit with $1.3 billion in withdrawal requests but satisfied less than $500 million of them, according to regulatory filings.Even with these limitations, the fund’s liquidity, consisting of cash, marketable securities and a bank line of credit, has been drying up.

I had to replace 2 steps this spring due to some minor rot.

Does your cleaning service stay at your units  long enough to wash/dry the comforters before making the beds or do you have a second set that can be put in the beds right away.  

You may thing you're buying a vacant lot, but it has $100,000 worth of junk to haul off, or that faded letter on the window when you get up close and personal says "dry cleaner". 

You would pull off the sheetrock, pull the insulation, dry everything out, treat the studs with a mold killer, then put it all back together.

You can earn honorable discounts and fees overtime by establishing mutually beneficial partnerships with one lender or broker but squeezing them dry for a lot of hard work and not equal pay isn't something I recommend making a strategy