I drove by the other day and saw a heavy bag, punching bag on the same porch.

Whoever does, will be a punching bag for the rest as prices are NEVER low enough for owners.Who's going to get the proper license(s)?

I pulled up the carpets (which had 30 years of dirt and dust under them) and found good hardwood floors.

There is an organization in LA that will help you navigate the permitting process and provide some advice/guidance *before* you go to the permit offices and let the cat out of the bag.  

We lived in a job site, full of dust, walking around in flip flops as we slowly renovated our house room by room over the course of 2-3 years.

@Carlos Ptriawan  Usually I'm attacked when I say thing like this, but well yes I'll try to explain from the big picture and mini picture here and kind of mixed bag PoV okay ;-) lol.in big picture, back to basicfirst of all , the relationship between the borrower and the lender ; are never equal.

Actually, the cash was in a paper bag.

Better hope it closes ok, or someone is holding a bag of *****Thanks.

I did purchase the course about a year ago but quite honestly it's just been sitting around collecting dust because I really didn't want to invest my time and energy into something like this that I wasn't 100% confident about.

100% agreed here.And the only investment that I could ever find that is as "passive" as can possibly be.Just need a large enough bag parked at 5.2% and one can go to sleep lol