Its easy to overestimate the selling price and underestimate the repairs and end up making nothing or suffering a loss.Rental investment (regardless of exactly what type of property), OTOH, don't tend to spin off large chunks of cash.

This costs a bit more, but saves me time when I'm working alone.But if I were you in your position, it would be 1/4 in. drywall screwed in to cover up the cracked plaster all day long, and if the appearance of the trim suffers a bit by being a bit more deeply submerged into the wall, so be it.

If your area is depreciating, as many areas are, condo’s are the first to suffer value loss.

A trained hunter who knows his prey and has a furtile hunting ground for what he is looking for (cash flow positive rentals plus paper equity).The Midwest down to TX and parts of some other states (western NY, some parts of the Carolina's and other places suffered for a number of years and are still suffering.

My mother suffered with berber for years because she loved it.

it could take three months to buy and fix but if the home sits for over a year then one would suffer a variable rate increase??

I'm to the point now where I'm wanting to do my first deal like crazy, but also suffering analysis paralysis!  

Google docs should be good co suffering you have one property.  

Take back the multimillions that the top layers of management people are walking out the doors with and apply it to one or more problems-whether it's reduction of debts, retirement accounts, increased (mass) healthcare, or other prrograms to help those that so severely suffer through the actions of those people.

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..