It started innocuous enough with some of his concerns, but then started to become more clear that he was someone who was not all that normal in how he reacted to things.

To my knowledge, he's the only one on BP, beside our attorneys who could obviously tackle RE 101.

Try www.therentalgirl.com - no connection to them other then i've rented through them before i bought, and it's a friendly collection of women-agents who specialize in unique areas, one of the may tackle La Canada Flintridge

I am talking with potential partners if I can distribute property out of my IRA and do a joint venture with a contractor owner. we are still sorting out the details on how to move forward on that front.Any thoughts on how to do this and if it is worth while to tackle a property with lots of smoke damage?

I can pass along a few freebie tutorials if you want to tackle it yourself.

It is probably a bigger rehab than I want to tackle at this stage, but I thought it might be a good one to get some paper practice on since small commmercial is one of my goals.

They are not going to buy investment real estate alone because they don't know how to find good deals like I do, and they're scared of many aspects of managing the asset, but I'm not.I believe this is a very powerful approach, and yes there are some kinks to work out, but it can be tackled.

So the analysis was flawed...in my case I was tackling it as a learning experience and it certainly was that.

Its nothing to crazy and and your not gonna be able to tackle every job.

You do need to have a general idea of what those types of jobs run, if it's something you will tackle.