We create brand-able and share-able reports with all the variables and charts to help visualize an investment in order to share the reports with business partners, realtors / clients, banks, potential clients, etc.Hope this helps, let me know if there is anything else I can be helpful with.

He has no safety net so I don't think its wise to take the risk because if he did a deal, lost disability and then since hes brand new to REI lets say it takes a while until he gets his next deal I just want to help advise him best!

@Jim Bouchard agreed with everyone just normal wear and tear, it happens. we just leased a brand new construction home and they've had like 4 things we've had to send someone out for (luckily all under warranty), but sometimes that stuff just happens.

The last few years I’ve seen it as pointless, as it was never a hard rule to be followed explicitly but a suggestion, and it seems like the only ones today who give it any credence are those brand new to REI and have heard it discussed on the older episodes of the podcasts or read about it in the books BP published 5+ years ago.

Look for brands like LifeProof, COREtec, or Shaw, with a 12–20 mil wear layer to handle heavy traffic. $2-4 per sf.Rigid Core Vinyl: This material is available in SPC (stone polymer composite) and WPC (wood polymer composite) types.

I'm a brand new investor, have binge listened to every podcast, read the books, and am ready to GO!!

Getting $235K in Maple HTS is a hefty price tag unless it's a brand-new build.We've managed to bump up low appraisals by $20k in Maple HTS, but it really depends on the specifics of the deal.     

When fixing up a house is the garage door something that usually gets changed to a brand new garage door? 

.: @Jay Hinrichsinteresting point - would obviously help brand new homeowners who are $5K short, or just over the DTI threshold, or whatever. 

i do think it's challenging, though, for a brand new investor with zero experience to jump right into a huge rehab with a contractor they've never worked with before.the contractor might want a larger up-front payment to mitigate their own risk, and they're not going to be interested in any kind of fancy nonsense like a 'penalty' when they know a new investor has never managed a large project before.i have also found that some contractors, including reputable ones, don't even want to share itemized bids because they just don't want to have to argue about the individual line items.