I knew I wanted to live in a home with enough bedrooms for both a home office (tax deduction) and roommate (more passive income).I knew from listening to the BP podcasts that the quality of tenant /roommate I would attract is directly related to the visual appeal of my home, so I spent $1800 on new carpet and $350 on a handyman to fix various broken things in preparation for showing my home to potential roommates.Here’s the process I used to find a great roommate:(1)Looked at roommate ads for my area (mostly on Craigslist) and tried to find out what amenities and rent should be for my situation.

I have a seller calls me weekly with "cosmetic" deals - yeah, install plaster over the studs, fix the roof and patch floor holes - its visual, therefore cosmetic, right?

On those that I did, I had such a huge spread in the deal, it was not a danger to profitability.There will be times that you will get into a rehab and discover some items that were impossible to see upon visual inspections, but in most cases, these items are not so expensive that they are a danger to your profitability, they simply cut into some of your profits (which should be large to start with if you do it right).In my rehab video series, I rehabbed a home where the floor boards in the kitchen and master bath were found to be rotted and needed replacement.

So he did at that time a visual inspection but without a running working scenario there is no way to make a real inspection.In this case the bank owns the house and doesn't have power running at all either.

I may have been something wrong for a long time...................................I use what I call a LOIit's basically a simple form with 3 different options to purchase their property ( it's easier then to fill out PSA's)obviously I use it with the 3rd and final option being the 'visually the best' for the seller.

I am new to this and am visual learning in the beginning!

(receiving mail at the unit, extra water usage, extra vehicles, personal toiletries and clothing, using the property facilities on a regular basis, etc.)Sometimes a monetary deterrent works, sometimes it doesn't... but I've collected a bit of cash from rule breakers to offset the headache.

It just fades into the background of the constant visual assault everyone has grown use to.

The rest of the site is a bit clunky to me and the UI is not visually pleasing.

Bandit signs worked 10 years ago, but they are now simply visual noise.