Buying a house is very exciting, but from the start the deck is stacked against you.

Ok, I'm building an outdoor deck and have the first beam installed.

He said that he has a friend who builds wooden decks professionally.

I did an entire 1,000 sq foot condo in only 2 days with just me and a utility knive (and a lot of blades).  

It's eggplant through and throughout and has a tape deck.

Deck was early August and the rest were all in October (some mid, some late).I thought tools had to be capitalized since the life is more than a year.

Kyle McDonald do you have any financials around this proposed purchase or investor deck?

Most of the time it makes more sense to rehab the older unit than to start from scratch.Keep in mind it will cost you 2K or more to move or demo the older home, and then you have to spend another 4-5K to move another home in, put in skirting, decking, etc.  

I can put that $4-5K to much better use rehabbing an existing home, which is otherwise pissed away into moving, skirting, decks, etc.  

Overall, this place was more than we wanted to bite off.The second place had broken crack vials outside and, when the realtor bravely opened the front door to the lower unit to announce our arrival, the was a line of cocaine and a razor blade on the small table right inside the door.