If you ever want to bounce ideas off someone who's been around the block a few times, feel free to give me a shout.Pat and JasperTurning investment visions into REALITY in Phoenix, AZ - Ranked #1 for residential real estate growth and opportunity by PwC

I'd spend the money on quartz.You want to have a nice place so don't be afraid to spend where needed.I've heard horror stories of people putting in butcher block and people using it as a cutting board.

You will make more connections with homeowners when you say you live there and you know the blocks and streets around them.

I think this applies to that new wave of people who want to be helpful (and want to get their post count up) so they respond to everything and often leave their lane.Real estate is decidedly local and you don't know where the blocks change if you've never been there or invested there.

It's a capital road block.

But a long driveway doesn't help if cars are blocked in by other cars when renters need them to go to work.

If you want to lend long term debt, you don’t want to compete and be the cheapest on the block (that’s a race to the bottom), you want to lend on stuff that nobody else (or a select few) will lend on and charge a premium for it.

Specific to me FF does not allow you to block the calendar in the future.

She has blocked it off and says this is her private space because it is in front of her porch. 

Milwaukee values sometimes change block by block, but at least they are uniform, so you have good comps.