We laughed about how being young and broke made us be creative and I enjoyed the story and visit with him very much.

., Cat 5 Ethernet, Cable TV, USB ports galore?

Before starting my real estate business several months ago I had an excellent credit score, and we used my personal lines of credit to finance our rehab costs on our properties since we were limited on cash.It's been great for us, b/c we didn't use up much capital and its left us cash to buy more.

You get a $9 check.A public adjuster working on your behalf documents that you lost a 4 slice toaster with a setting to toast from frozen and a dial to adjust the power and it's self cleaning and it has a usb port and bla bla bla... the adjuster knows all the little things.

That being said it's a great long term investment if you can get past the beginning hump.

I am looking for any and all advice or tips that you fine people could share with me in order to get me over the hump and take the next step.  

And now I am over the "holiday hump" for finding new tenants if they do break the lease and move out.

How do I get passed the "start up capital hump"?

For those of you who have a spouse or significant other who you partner with in investing and they started off reluctant, how did you get them over the hump and to jump in the sweet sweet pool of real estate investing?

You have the construction company and, presumably, the construction skills to make a flip happen.If downpayment/rehab money is the holdback, perhaps a partnership would help you get over that hump. 50% of something is better than 100% of nothing.