When redoing some of the plumbing for the hall bath, we realized previously someone had cut almost completely through a floor joist to run plumbing.

So what I decided was seeing that I know RE is the direction I really want to go I stopped my TSP and decided to pay off my car loan and a personal loan faster and cut down the interest I pay overtime..

Even the agent's commission is well worth it if it helps me buy more deals and sell those deals faster so I can move on to the next.So I'd say that if you adjust your thinking from being focused on cutting costs to doing whatever you need to do more deals, you'll not only be more successful but you'll be happier too because you're not stressing over every little dollar spent.

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Both of those things cut heavily into your original estimates of profits.- There is a possibility you won't sell your property for a price high enough to justify selling and you may have to rent it for a while (oh, and incur a bunch of new financing & title co costs to refi out of your hard money loan).The ONLY fun things about them are: (a)  they are finally over, and (b) hopefully, you produced a good product and sold it with a profit... latter isn't guaranteed as you could guess from the earlier discussion.Consider negotiating your purchase prices harder and "wholetailing" instead of rehabbing.

The biggest problem landlords have in pre screening is not being crystal clear as to what their cut off requirements are.

It happened by accident when a wholesaler reached out to me and told me if I found the deals, that he would bring the buyers, cutting not much for me, my thinking at first was that is how it is. 

We want our projects to be a cut above anything on the market.

Sadly, the bushes were dead and had to be cut down.

I understand this would probably cut out bank financing for a while as a bank wants to see some form of steady long-term income coming in.