After a few discussions with Steve Cook (a well-respected RE analyst who gave a great presentation at the Summit), we decided to take a look at Milwaukee.During our first investigative trip up to Milwaukee, we met up with two other BP members that we'd never met in person -- James Gefke and Emilio Ramirez.

I am a chef and I absolutely love food and teaching people how to cook. 

Once I learn how to cook, I'm sure I can figure out a recipe for my own secret sauce :) Therefore, my question is more how I can get hands on experience BEFORE I buy any notes, not what kind of notes I should start off buying.

The father is a cook, the mother doesn't work, and they have a small child.Any rehabbers or investors experience this in the past?

Some of my interests are golf, cooking, gaming and continued personal development.

There is not much money to be made in inner-city vegetable gardening but it might be the only way to get something out of the lot. 

Apparently they are both heated via large gas stoves in the kitchen (i.e. the stoves are old fashioned and are supposed to be used for cooking and heating). 

Best brick cleaner for vegetation on the front of the house brick?

It'd be nice if there was a guru who discusssed the equity issue in their courses..Preston Ely doesn't..Steve Cook doesn't..Vena doesn't... and then people wonder why wholesaling is so difficult....if you're not getting the whole picture, your business will suffer..

Someone (probably ex tenant) kicked in 4 of the interior doors, two big holes in the walls, cherry kool aid stains on carpet, dead lawn, cut some wires in the walls, NEVER cleaned the kitchen and looks like used lard to cook everything, the cooktop looks like a couple of "smallish fires" may have happened and the (original, 1979) oven has NEVER BEEN CLEANED, oh and to top it off we have a family of THREE SKUNKS LIVING IN THE CRAWL SPACE.And of course I no longer live 6 miles from this place, I live 950 miles away.I just spent 1 1/2 weeks working on it, about 30 "contractor size" garbage bags, 5 gallons of paint, a million small things that you always run into.Anyway I found a "craigslist" cooktop and wall oven for pretty cheap, my wife helped a lot, even though she hates RE investing and my neighbor has been a godsend because the trash service only picks up the rolling dumpster, NOTHING ELSE, so he has hauled the other stuff to the dumpster at his work.I'm heading back to TX to hit the kitchen, exterior paint, front yard and finish the interior paint (oil base on the trim).