I just finishing building my own home from the ground up -- was an electrician in college.Any help would be greatly appreciated.Thanks JP

I also plan on getting my real estate license, have finished the pre-licensing course, and will sit for the exam soon.  

I left as they were finishing it.

Multiply that by 3-6 projects going on at once, and that's hundreds of transactions per month.Btw, here's a new construction project I tried to document down to every receipt...I stopped entering each transaction about six weeks before I finished writing checks (it just got too cumbersome), but this should give you an idea of the volume of transactions on a typical project (and this one was actually pretty low compared to some other projects):http://www.thescottpad.com/expenses-to-date/

Examples of income of this type include income from hourly workers with fluctuating hours, or income that includes commissions, bonuses, or overtime.History of Receipt: Two or more years of receipt of a particular type of variable income is recommended; however, variable income that has been received for 12 to 24 months may be considered as acceptable income, as long as the borrower’s loan application demonstrates that there are positive factors that reasonably offset the shorter income history.Examples of positive compensating factors that we like to see (1-3 will generally do it)...Employed in same line of work.Makes sense from a common sense perspective, like someone is returning to the workforce after being a stay at home parent for a while.Recently finished some training or education program that lines up with the new line of work.Low DTI.Great credit.Income trending upwards. 

I am a new part time real estate investor having just finished my 1st buy, rehab, and rent of a small single family home in Tacoma, WA.  

@Alex GordonWe just took-on a property that needed some TLC before it could be rented - I'll finish painting the last room tomorrow and put it back together on Wednesday.   

I'm buying more in Shaker than University Heights, but just finished up one up at 3510 Raymont over there, pretty big job, we were moving walls. 

I have an initial goal of attaining $3,000 per month ($36k annually) in income derived from real estate investments in order to supplement my full-time job.To kickstart this post, I thought I'd ask some questions to the community that I've been pondering over the course of my real estate education:First, market timing: I have the sense that the Dallas market has been on the upswing for the past several years, accelerating even more rapidly since the announcement of several major companies (including Toyota) moving to Plano.  

The property is a duplex, 3 bed over 3 bed and a finished basement with 4 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.