I own a couple and I read through the annual reports cover to cover to see how these "big boys" do their business.

These seemed very minor to me but every one of these items showed up on the inspection report and ended up scaring our buyer away.

You have owned in years 5 to 15 of ownership and my buyer will have all these repairs from items reaching the end of their life expectancy so their numbers will not look close to what you are reporting.

They will return the escrow once the inspection comes back clean.So, does that mean I have to get a licensed contractor to give me a bid for the entire list of city inspection report list of problems or do they just want certain items that would require a permit or a license to perform.

If everything is being reported honestly, there should be no reason why they can't provide that.

If your house is dirty and smells like pee the appraiser is going to try to find a property like that to stick into their report.

I wrote a report on how to choose the best market.

Sure, it's better than being below average, but I for one am sick and damn tired of sitting in a friggin cubicle working my *** off for someone else who will lay me off when the quarterly reports dip, chunking money into a 401(k) that earns a paltry 13% per year on average.

If you have your property inspected by a licensed lead inspector and their report determines lead is present you have 2 options (assuming you even want or need to delead).. get certified to handle the lead abatement yourself (not the route I took) or hire a licensed deleading contractor (there are also certified lead remodelers and other classifications of people certified to handle deleading).

Between a day job and flipping income you may hit this.And keep in mind that if this really is your job and you expect to collect social security someday the amount of income you report now will affect what you collect later.