First 1, first 10 for that matter, were dirty/stinky/dark/dank houses that “people wouldn’t want to live in”. 

Welcome out of the lurking shadows Chris and best of luck investing! 

And now that the local government went ballistic and maliciously shut most of Airbnb down by scaring citizens and owners with exorbitant penalties (the dark side of the force is strong), this topic is off the table in this paradise until things change.

Hello in February I’m PCSing to Carson and would like to know if anyone is overthere to help guid me in the right direction and let me shadow them for a while.

It really depend on how dark you want the distressed to be.

This is the reason why I'm having a tough time figuring out how to move forwards and be able to properly analyze deals since the rehab estimate is such a critical part of the equation and I don't want to just be shooting in the dark.

Shadow them for a day or two.

In that learning process we were shooting in a dark room and probably came very close to shooting ourselves a few times.

Navy is very stylish right now, but not so dark it doesn’t “accent.”

We're willing to pull the trigger despite the shadow giants of fear and failure hovering over us and reaching into us to clench their mighty fists around our hearts, as they do to every person starting out in real estate investing.What did you do right starting out?