When you are doing a full rehab (new floors, kitchen, bathrooms, windows, electric, insulation) in a single-family house, should you try to install new HVAC system, new furnace and a new water-heater, which is a very big expense, or if the old one is working keep the old one, and when it brakes install a new one later on? 

Buy the car, detail it, throw some new tires and brakes on it, change the oil, wiper blades, and try to get $9k.

Then again, I even do my own brake/rotor jobs on my car so I may be an exception here.

This will probably be an incremental process, but ultimately it is probably a good thing to have a spouse that has a foot on the brakes so that you don't grow faster than you can handle (or at least that is what I tell myself).

I did about 8 deals with two different portfolio lenders in my area after calling 30 plus. both of them pumped the brakes with me because I purchased about 10 properties last year and they want to see how those properties perform before they keep going.

My personal thoughts, I like the senate bill much better but only for selfish reasons.I have a feeling this is going to be like the start of 83.  3 good years of a juiced economy, brakes get stomped in 86 with the reform act and then I'm sure some you remember 87. 

Ask for a brake down in trades, perhaps.Get three bids and have them all to attend the same walk-through. 

.), and STILL make your numbers on cash flow.I never encourage anyone to pump their brakes -- if the numbers work and it looks good, ACT -- but for someone in your situation, I think you would be better served taking a househack approach versus buying a mediocre property in a bad neighborhood, and hoping a lot of things go right.Good luck young man -- I only bring up the above as a Devil's Advocate.

Oh, and check your car brakes.

Should I tap the brakes or keep going hoping that the heard will be stronger if it is bigger?