Understand your market - would make it easier to do comps - recent sales, rents, etc.

For a standard 3/2 with 1,200 sqft we usually spend 50-80k on a full rehab, 10-15k holding cost, 15-20% profit before tax, 7% cost of sale.

The only tech company based here that I know of is Neighborly, which has several hundred employees.

I have a group chat with my tenants that time stamps all communications, and have handymen, plumbers, HVAC techs, etc. in town that communicate well. 

Sale price: $163,000 3 bedroom, 2.5 baths and around 2400sqft townhome.

Because typically when I put a house up for sale, I will get a call from an agent that has (allegedly) a buyer, and they ask "are you willing to pay me 3% (or 2.5%)" and i usually work out something that works for both parties.But I wonder...is the buyer now responsible for paying their agent?

Purchase price: $50,000 Cash invested: $35,000 Sale price: $121,000 Contributors: Peter Vekselman Partner Driven and Kody Higginbotham purchased the W 10th St property in Crowley, LA, for $50,000 on 8/27/2024.

She's put the property up for sale already. 

Ideally completing light renovations like this shouldn't take long and you should  have a low holding cost on the hard money loan (if you used debt) and make a higher profit on the sale or have more flexibility on the payoff when you refinance  Plan on long-term and hold.

One metric they provide is new construction sales, which I can use to calculate % of total sales and see whether that value is trending up or down.My question is, in general is a market more or less desirable if there are a lot of new builds hitting the area?