my property appreciation varies from a low of $2700/month to over $10k/month.   

I am researching meet up groups here in the Chicagoland but, I am open to connect with others like myself (first-timers) and experienced investors over coffee!

My name is Jamison Shaw, I am licensed general contractor with over 15 years experience in residential and light commercial construction.

Atlanta MSA is great and growing, but Multi-Family supply coming on line there both now and through next year is significant, wouldn't this be a better/cheaper deal 1 year from now?

Quote from @Steve NA: Hello All,I am new to investing in general (outside of a condo I have rented over the years).

I am over them and can't do this anymore. 

Hard Money finance, with about $5k of my own funds going into some over-budget costs.

So it looks like we are already over Our expected budget and approximately 75% done in guessing. 

Hi Charles,This is probably the fastest way to the poor house, mainly because, in Japan, houses are like cars as in their market value depreciates and goes to 0 over time.

But ya have to make some educated prognostications in life.Add this to the information your processing - What your talking about doing is eliminating around $4000 or interest expense (which is deductible anyway so really could be a real impact of eliminating $2800 or so) of debt in exchange for paying over $10K in capital gains tax (don't forget possible state gains tax as well).