Also replace the rotten wooden walls with beadboard.

Go down to Home Depot and pick up a few bundles of wooden stakes and some nails.

The last 5 years I was a landlord I required my tenants to carry a Renter's policy.Make sure you have a GREAT LEASE, not something that you purchased off the rack at Office Depot.

Standard finishes include wooden floors for the living and sleeping areas, ceramic tiles for the kitchen and bathroom floors, painted plastered cement for the walls and painted plyboard for ceilings.

Don't get it if you are the type of person that racks up credit card debt.- (If possible in your market) Try to buy a building where your total rents will be more than 133% of the PITI payments for the mortgage.

So if you looking for an apple and apples are hard to find, then as a agent your gonna put that apple buyer on the rack until one pops up.

It was a nerve-racking experience but the beauty is, we have our day jobs to support us if we do make mistakes.In hindsight, my suggestion to you would be to study up on how to figure out if a deal makes sense financially and stick to some baseline ROI figures that you personally set.

I have never seen cabinets mounted to a slab floor or even to a wooden sub floor.

A few hundred bucks to replace a window.Are these old, wooden windows?

It is quite exciting and nerve racking at the same time.Looking at doing a buy and hold strategy to generate passive income (I will sell if the market is right and I can upgrade properties).