David Schneiderhey dave,although i dont have many of my own properties i know my father hires general contractors and then pays them by the job and not the hour (many will milk the clock).

David Niles I agree with you on the workforce these days lack ambition and are lack goals other than getting enough to skim by.

We also eat organic food, so milk is $7 per gallon.

Karen Margrave, I haven't got a chance to really dig into it yet, but I've skimmed a few chapters.

My concern is that it would be very easy for PM to be skimming money off the rent (ie: tell me it rented for $3700 when they actually collected $4000.)My questions are:1.

To dig deeper, you'll generally need to be qualified to get past the gate keepers, but there should be enough in the public domain to skim the surface. :)

Yes, they're entitled to price it wherever they'd like.I would say an average markup that I've seen in my market is ~$5,000, but I do get deals from some that try to milk the profits and squeeze $15k+.

Once I have spread on my first layer of mud and have embedded the joint tape I skim it one more time with a fairly light coat and let it sit for about 5-10 minutes, then i use a really moist clam shell sponge and float out the edges before it dries completely.

I like the blogs better because I can skim through and may learn a thing or two.

My guess is that the seminars are for newbies to milk some $ out of them.Thanks!