You are putting in sweat equity by doing the painting yourself. if you were looking at this as purely an investment, you would want to price in having a contractor do the work.

In retrospect, doing things like this purely on gut instinct isn't recommended.

I will say that for myself, the only relationship I would likely have with family is pure money.

Purely from a cash on cash return perspective, for a small town in CA with above-average growth historically and some good market indicators for future growth, is this a good deal or a bad one?

Investing in the stock market is 100% pure gambling.Life insurance should not be a vehicle to make money and I would never borrow against a policy.

That's purely speculation but since they've started "buying" houses online, it makes me curious if they're messing with things to make their lowball offer more appealing to a frustrated landlord.

However, I would like to have the plex as a pure investment and not living quarters mostly because I want to satisfy personal wants and my wife's as well.

It's purely a facts and circumstances based analysis.

When it's a pitbull they say it in the headline.I had a "pure bread" toy poodle as a kid my father got from a local pet store.

Her argument is that had we gone with another contractor we would have spent a lot more money (Keep in mind we don't have estimates from other contractors and this is purely a gut instinct).