Don't know don't care.You are gambling with a lot of time and effort and if you are anything like me?

That's an $1800 gamble with this software.

Or for a total immersion, buy the PR's interest in the estate today and replace her as the PR.  

You really need to immerse yourself and learn all you can.

Unless you just really like gambling or have money to burn, in which case, by all means - roll the dice if that's your thing.Further - contractors and suppliers are SO damn busy these days with all of the construction going on around here that getting a renovation of any real scale completed correctly or a new construction job done is a very serious challenge in and of itself and takes a great degree of skill, care, TIME, connections, and probably some luck.

At the moment it looks more like gambling.

A gamble.

I hope I can network and immerse myself into this site; not only for networking opportunities but life long friends and partners. 

I do not have the capital to invest in the expensive market that I live in, and am not looking to gamble on California appreciation, so investing long-distance was my only choice.

Very inspiring thread. and to me the theme is the money is made buying low value add sell high.. and or the dreaded APPRECIATION .. who ever coined APPRECIATION is gambling needs to read this thread..