I want an all new kitchen from soup to nuts, new bathroom, new hardwoods in living room and dining room, refinish original hardwoods in 2 bedrooms, paint, replace wood paneling in 2 rooms with sheetrock/mud/tape/paint, make 2 existing doorways a little larger, frame half of basement/drywall/outlets/carpet.2.

The exposure you gain, the credibility you build, the community you establish are all extremely valuable for the potential growth of a real estate investing business.There are so many ways you can use a blog - for spreading your message, for keeping yourself accountable, for chronicling your journey . . .I'm actually going to be attending the BlogWorld Event located in Los Angeles next month - speaking on a panel about blogging in the age of social media.Bottom line - I'm wondering why you guys aren't blogging?

Make sure you have working bulbs in lights, GFCI outlets installed, closed j-boxes, proper connections, clean main panel connections, etc).

So I had my alarm guy come and wire all the windows up there - but not to the alarm panel, just to a relay.  

I was planning to charge the tenant as the only way I can see the lever breaking off is being too rough with it, but then I saw this thread with the control panel hanging off and the consensus seemed to be that this was normal wear and tear.

Also, I always seem to find ones with fake wood paneling, in this market is it worth having them sanded primed and painted by someone?

Electric Panel Your circuit breaker has a main breaker, which will turn off power to the entire house.

A thick sound proofing blanket at the top of the stairs, and some sound dampening panels in their "space" should keep all the sound in.But seriously, 2 warnings is perfect.

I walk into houses that I'm looking at as possible investments, and I see old wood paneling, old wood or worse yet, metal cabinets, dated bathrooms, etc...I don't want to put a zillion dollars into these, but I don't want to be considered a "slumlord" either.

This pipe terminates into a sump pump.Next, the walls were covered with a heavy gauge plastic wall panels that extend down into the trench.The remaining space in the trench was filled with gravel and a new concrete floor was poured .It's amazing how much water flows into the sump pit but the basement is completely dry.It was fairly expensive but in retrospect, worth every penny since the space is now usable square footage.