Some of the best money you can spend early on is for training, which will end up shaving years off your learning curve.Good luck to you in your investing future!

Same concept, this is vertical load as opposed to horizontal though.If you decide to fill that thing in, you may want to think about going with expanded polystyrene foam blocks.  

Brandon Miller, Tread lightly and shave those pennies.

No slicing the onion and then shaving those slices thinner and thinner.In order to account for the lease-up cost you have to make some assumption about the frequency of vacancies.

You find a property with some "issues" and shave the hair off and you can make a nice profit.

This place consists mostly of porous wood so even if I gave them the benefit of the doubt that it was even foamed, it still needs taken down to bare bones for me to not only feel alright about living in it, but ethically, ever selling it.

He can then go around the house with the remaining foam-like sealant and seal up all the holes.

The roof is in bad shape (1980s age) and is currently a spray foam and membrane type roof.  

Spray foam in the rafters will probably do it.

Then spray foam insulation in holes to prevent rodent entry into the wall.