I guess its nice to have an easy way out by trying to next best thing but honestly it just takes a little bit of sweat blood and tears.

I'll tell you why, these knuckleheads left the most important concept out - to a successful business - "IT'S THE MARKETING"Marketing is the "BLOOD TO ANY BUSINESS"think about it - I heard of a marketing degrees, but i never heard of a fix n flip degree The marketing plan (strategy) alone - can easily take up a 3 day seminar!!

Seems like much too rich for my blood. $1,050 rent cannot support $90k/door before rehab.

I was just looking at a house on cl in Georgia. 835k purchase ARV 1.2-1.5 milrehab 140ksounds good but to rich for my blood lol

hi marcus. yes, filters need to be changed often. in fact, i recommend at least once a month, depending on the location of your furnace and cold air return system. that being said, here is my experience and expertise. ( i just competed getting my certification in furnace repair). the purpose of the cold air and fan are to circulate the hot air to the area where heat is needed. but the purpose is also to cool the heat exchanger in the furnace as well. the heat exchanger is a sealed system of pipes that the heat created by the burners heats up. the air from the fan/ cold air return blows passed the heat exchanger to circulate the heat to other areas and to cool the heat exchanger. if the filter is clogged, no air gets past the heat exchanger and consequently, the heat exchanger will overheat and get damaged. i have personally seem the heat exchanger with massive holes in it due entirely to a clogged filter. it is highly unlikely that your heat exchanger inside is full of dirt, but the fan and area around the heat exchanger could be filthy

Goat's blood?  

Well yeah.. blood is thicker than... water!

Once I get one property the idea is to build a portfolio but that will come with blood, sweat, and tears.

As I said, I live in Australia, however my blood is North American and I have travelled a lot of North America seeing all my family and I also had a look at some proprties when I was there, mainly in Florida.

My market has turned into a blood bath fighting for rehabs pressing prices above reason, all the while rentals with a vacancy rate of 3% and a solid 5%-7% annual appreciation on rents across the board each of the last 3 years with the only change in sight to be growth to those returns.