I'd maybe consider bringing in a partner to fund the rest? Or

My dream would be to take older homes and restore them while also making them environmentally friendly.  

The 1st property I purchased falls into this category and not realizing this, I had to restore the windows instead of replacing with Vinyl.

Good evening.  We are new to the REI world and just jumped in feet first with the purchase of a 4-plex in Virginia (what were we thinking?!).  We were wondering if anyone knows a general contractor that they would rec...

It's just the house that he built for himself when he was building the rest (or his portion; there may have been several developers) of the subdivision.  

I think there are 2 options, either restore the home to its 2 unit form and go for the approach of live in a great house and have someone help pay their mortgage or try and turn it into a 4 or 5 unit apartment building.

Two type of rehabs, by the book restorations or modernization. 

I am striving to build a team focused on re-building the neighborhoods and restoring the sense of community in them. 

Rehab addict is a distant second because she only does the restoration stuff.The entertaining people are all gone and instead they're doing ones like the flip texas thing where they buy these bandboxes and move them somewhere in texas and sell them at some hillbilly auction.

The down-turn caused by a vacancy creates some effort to restore the full 10%, oh my, some real work - - clean, advertise, show, sign lease.