The estimating cost books out there can be useful for soft costs only.

( I was going to write $198-202 but the avg is 200 and it makes #'s easy :-))Resale costs will be around 5% since we are listing it ourself (soft cost) $12,000Resale $240,000Projected profit before including money costs$240,000-$212,000=$28,000 One time return on total capital invested 14%Annualized projected return 42% (assuming 4 month turn around time) So we can go one of several ways here...Use our own capital and make 28k and a 14% one time return on our money what a 42% annualized.Use Hard Money and pay around 2 points and 12% on the capital thus paying about 6% on 85% of the purchase price

I would try to get a soft commitment of half your raise before listing on a portal.Do you have a backup plan in case it doesn't fund?

The standing water are soft spots in his roof. 

Stick with "soft" pulls if possible. 

Soft skills like communications, ability to follow through on projects....While a degree certainly isn't a requirement, and isn't going to impress anyone, it can act as a validation "checkbox" in the back of someone's mind when choosing to do business with you. 

But she only gets 40% of the total profits , so $37K / .4 = $92,500 total net profit (after the soft costs) from the deal.

The May 2014 Realtors Confidence Index was just released and can be found at http://www.realtor.org/reports/realtors-confidence...Interesting outlooks on distressed properties and a good map indicating the hottest states for appreciation.Basically, confidence for the next 6 month is soft, but agents expect modest appreciation almost everywhere.

Freedom Soft is a good software to have for pulling lists.For more targeted lists you can create and purchase a list on www.listsource.com

That will bleed you to death.There is a reason there is so many low end crap houses avabliable because landlords FAIL everyday of the week. and those that promulgate these areas are FAR WORSE THAN ANY GURU THAT IS vilified on this site.Ok so maybe I have a strong opinion on this but it is the other side of the coin that no one On BP ever talks about or if they do its all soft balls...