Considering you are going to hire the work out, you will be lucky to come in under $5,000 and that's IF nothing unsuspected comes up.""

Inundating us with thousands of suggestions isn't going to make them come any quicker.

Joel,Wow I am welcoming a second person from Utah in under 1 day!

We have sold most of our homes in under 30days.

We closed a dozen of these in less than 90 days last year, so it's certainly possible.The key is to find a bank/underwriter who will do the loans in under 90 days, and "encourage" your buyers to use that lender.

Again, you are just a consultant who helps the client manage the entire process.For this, you may get paid a percentage of the renovation costs (and perhaps a bonus for coming in under the client's anticipated budget), you may get paid a flat fee or you may get paid hourly.

. :-) I have a 1350 sf that rents itself - I can barely get it posted before I'm inundated with people asking to see it, etc.

In a State like Missouri, we've typically got the property back in under 90 days.

From this information I can reasonably accurately run my rehab and profit potential numbers in under five minutes and let you know if I want to come look at the house.

Regarding the "seeing returns in under 2 years" I cannot recall what the circumstances were, although the statement seemed very unusual even to me knowing nothing about real estate so I more or less ignored it.Ali Boone:Your method of investing sounds perfect for me.