We did it for many years, so ours got a taste for REI early in life & they all put in a lot of sweat equity.

But in the future, my tastes may change, so I would simply continue to build my monthly cash flow to whatever's number seems appropriate.

It is an ideal location for our needs (family business).Laws have changed the minimum ppm in our area and it now should pass code to allow construction on property for restaurant/tasting room (this is reason no one would touch this property until now).

This is really messy for my taste.

Does the $1 Hershey bar of today taste better than the $0.05 cent Hershey bar of the past?

Tom just make sure every property is a winner.New investors get a taste of success with one property or transaction then want to go on a huge buying spree.Never buy just for the sake of buying to hit volume goals or talk yourself into OK deals.Your capital will get depleted, you will spin your wheels to break even, and you will have bad portfolio averaging occur.Portfolio averaging is taking the total return of all your properties.

We also like the idea of building to our taste vs having to buy into what is currently for sale.  

You can get a taste for a contracting team/turnkey guys through the program and then decide to invest more if you like the experience.  

If they had engineered hardwood put real hardwood, You want to be the best property period.Our rehab we just did-there was a house in our subdivision that did just like we did- granite counter tops, ceramic tile- the house didn't look like ours because we all have diffrent tastes however ours was the best rehab- we got 4 offers in the first week while that house sat on the market for 60+days during the summer.

For awhile there I was going to assist some wholesalers by finding the houses for them as the thrill of the hunt is what I enjoy in this, but as soon as I started asking even the most basic questions they got skittish and disappeared so it left a bad taste in my mouth.