I just make sure to get a fat deposit.

In order to maximize forced appreciation, do I:rehab as quick as I can, (in less than 60 days) and try to refi hoping the appraisers use comps PRE-Harvey ordo I rehab and wait it out a year+ before refinancing so that all the homes are rehabbed and values go back to where they were before the storm.

One of those big fat tax guides with an index at the library or bookstore, Lassiters, etc might point you in the right direction.

12- Sell and CelebrateNegotiate the sales price, go to the closing, and collect your big fat check :).

Last year I had a client who was a startup in Home Automation space, which set my spider-senses tingling into the Real Estate industry, which set a course where now I'm running the marketing department for a high-end real estate firm here in the DFW area.I'm here because I love to learn as much as I can in order to become excellent in my space.

I'm looking forward to learning learning learning everything I can in the REI business.

Buying/selling notes is a good business, but it's important to be the first position unless you've got a fat wallet.

The the last phase, little to no acquisition, little to no new debt, jettison under performing properties, paying off debt, keeping the cream of the crop properties and living off the fat of the land.6.

One view I sometimes take of low-income cash-flowers is like an interest-bearing CD.In other words, I'll be willing to sell for what I've got in it, but in the meantime I'd better be getting a waayyyy fat cash flow.

And while that's happening I look to get what I can in terms of costs for things like insurance costs, historic expenses, pesky things like utilities bills, if the owner has to pay for a trash dumpster, property tax assessments, etc.