I personally made these repairs at a total cost to me for $150.

House hacking is a great way to reduce living costs while building equity, and BiggerPockets is a great place to network and gain insights.Good luck!

Roll them all up and the averages are:purchase $154krenovate $47Ksell $232kThese are gross numbers, not including closing costs, borrowing costs, holding costs, licensing and permit costs, G&A, overhead, commissions, forward rate buy-downs, and lease-up fees, to name a few of the many expenses incurred. 

Through renovations of the apartment units and recently executing a lease for the restaurant space, by the fall my rent roll will be increased to $29,600.00, My total costs will be $2.85M, and anticipate stabilized valuation to be $4M and is a true trophy property I will own with my capital partners for years to come. 

Strong dollar means higher component costs.3.  

I have other money that'll cost me 10%.

The issue we often run into is the pure cost to build...you have ideas or ways you are working around that?

But the portfolio operations enabled both of those entities to use, in effect, government-related borrowing costs and sort of unlimited credit, to set up the biggest hedge fund in the world...So the portfolios are poison.

They had lots of options to reduce cost, they came in at $8k less than the first place, and I could knock even more off of it if I trench the new lines myself (the trenching and excavation prices were pretty brutal, I could hire it out for a fraction of the price). 

I think most of us do, but the problem that I've discovered with 15% down programs over the past couple of years is the balance between the cost of the home and the rent it can garner.