I usually provide our budget as well with totals spent. 

Spent a few months and about 40k rehab and was just told by the city it’s not a triplex, or even a duplex but a SFH.

I have spent the last few years reading many books on real estate, taking real estate courses, researching, saving as much as I could, investing (to increase my purchase power) and finally feel I can begin my real estate journey this year. 

In my view they made the correct decision and if you spent significant time recovering this cost, well I think we all know what that is. 

The combination of its growing tech & healthcare sector, long-term resilience to climate change, and relative affordability makes it an interesting place to start our real estate journey.I spent a big part of my career in hospitality real estate consulting at a Big 4 firm, but I left to explore new opportunities and decided it was finally time to take the leap into real estate investing.

It cost us more money than we would have liked to have spent, but we were able to put a house on the market that we were proud of.

Look, if you've spent any time in UK you already know the US tourist is WAY different than say the German tourist.

Let's say you spent a month on the initial preparation: cleaning, painting, shopping for furnishings, assembling IKEA furniture and so on.

@Chris Kay I spent about $50K on a 3/1 reno about 5 years ago.

I am not knocking listing agents, but majority of their time and effort is spent getting the listing.