Purchase price: $409,000 Cash invested: $30,000 Beautiful 3000 sqft home in the art district in NODA.

The art of creating systems in any business or field that you are working is crucial to that ventures success.

Perhaps this is where the art in our craft comes into play, but my question is this:When you are looking at a property in which the numbers appear to work, what criteria are you using to evaluate the non-quantifiable aspects of a potential rental property?

We have been investing for over 10 years and finding contractors is a art and not a science and we have found the most luck finding specialized contractors for each item.  

I love the art of making deals. 

It's time to put this "Art of RIPOFFISM" to rest with a proverbial silver dagger through the heart.

This is off topic but I am currently renting my house to John Alexander, the art director for the Salem tv show.

along with the art of persuasion and meeting requirements?

In 2005 I bought property that included a 70 year old General Store converted to cafe (7 yr owner finance-paid for with proceeds from running cafe myself), a 1940 Arts and Craftsman bungalow and a 1/1 cabin.

Meade, MD between DC and Bmore and there are a lot of old row house properties that are being flipped for mass profit in the Baltimore area but more specifically in the art district.