Just got the text from my heat guy, he estimateds $4500 to put in a forced air system, because of all the ductwork.

Although higher rents may seem to be an appealing option for you, I wouldn't dare put in a bad tenant in even w/ a great rent deposit.

To give you an idea of the circle it was the type of neighborhood that when the city wanted to come put light polls in all the neighbors got together and petitioned the city to allow them to put in the classic light poll at the end of the drive rather then the tall yellow light, light polls the city was going to do.

However, this could easily be structured as a strategic partnership -- his funds, your time -- and in the end he gets back everything he put in plus an agreed sum, and you split the difference.

The more regulations put in place by acts like Dodd Frank the more freedom we lose to be entrepreneurs and live OUR American Dream. 

First its all in teh list and the more targeted the list the better the results.So a list that targets all home owners is going to not do as well as a list that might target something specific like:Out of State Owners - where you might get people who have moved away or inherited a house they don't want or burned out landlordsUnpaid Taxes - where people are in financial difficulty and going to loose their house to unpaid taxesOwned for a Long Time - where the people might own free and clear orHigh Equity Owners - again free and clearOr even other lists that you might build yourself -Expired MLS LIstings - people who want to sell but did notNOD - people who are have received a notice of defaultLate Pays - people late on their mortgageGarage & Estate Sales - people moving out of their houseAs for a good letter, I have recently used a yellow letter company for a simple I want to buy your house and they make a "handwritten" letter on legal pad paper, fold it weird to put in a thank you card size envelope, with a "handwritten" address, and grandmaesque return address label.It gets opened more, but we do get a lot of calls with people saying they don't want to sell or that we should say we are a company.We tested the straight Dear Mr Jones, we want to buy your house at 123 mainstreet with out our company name or website, just to call us . . that generated more calls than the letter that just went out that added in that we are an investment company and they can call or visit our website . . . can't tell if the results were much different.And personally, you can get all kinds of results, but it comes down to it, you want the motivated people to call you and those people are going to find you letter or not - if you have a website.

I recently noticed a hairline crack on the floor of the almond colored bathtub in the house I'm currently living in, which I will be converting to a rental in the next three to six months.I've already put in a new floor and vanity in this bathroom, but was holding off on replacing the bathtub due to the estimated costs I've heard from others.  

We also partner with other local businesses to bring value to our tenants (and the local business).Our market has seen many new units come on-line in the past three years (200 in the vicinity of universityville) and vacancy is up >60% in the past two years  {which sounds drastic until put in context: vacancy went from <4% to 6.7%}.  

I understand the rule, you get out what you put in and I am all in.

You will need to put in either the trader's name (he should have a Series 3 license) or the firm's name.