Put pressure on the property management company to do better tenant screening and better property management.6.  

I have friends on the police force who say they're going to start putting pressure on the owner due to the 3-4 year history of issues and the recent bust on the property.According to neighbors (and my brother), the house has gone off and on the market over the span of the last few years.  

Here's what I would do:Set up a meeting with him and put pressure (a lot) on him to finish the job within x amount of time.

Had I restricted myself to a particular discipline from the outset, however, or had I succumbed to the pressure and not spent a surviving in Mexico without any money or contacts, I wouldn't be where I am today.Several months ago, as I began my real estate education, I realized that I was in a unique situation, and needed to position myself best to fully capitalize.

However, as a *good* REI, your responsibility is, like Jordan Thibodeau says, to do your own due diligence, run the numbers, and determine if the investment is good or not.Specifically, I think the most important things to pressure test are 1) the expected rents, 2) any rehab or fix up costs, and 3) property fair market value.

.$2,700 for granite -- I could have gotten builder-grade granite and kept the old top-mount sink for $2,200, but decided on exotic granite and a new under-mount sink.$3,000 for painting -- the foundation is under a lifetime warranty, but the tenants didn't bother to water it, so it had to be adjusted and the walls and ceilings had cracks.

Third, wall-mounted A/C, I think Mitsubishi has a line of them.

To be fair, the noncompliance of noticing and eviction clause was added to law because of pressure from holdover tenants after foreclosure in California.

There is really no high pressure selling from the front of the room several guest speakers etc.You may want to check it out. www.texasexpo.com

.), there might be pressure for real estate prices to escalate.