Although housing is high, but you can buy home here, except you have to be smart to purchase home at the soft market... and not fighting with RE speculators during seller market.

Also, you might consider some light staging like nice towels and candles in the bathroom, etc. to give it some color and warmth.

We have enough linens/towels to last 3-4 guests, so we only do laundry after a few turnovers. 

If the numbers are projected (pro-forma) then you’ll want to reference then again other sources, for example property managers and online rent rate tools for market rents.Another thing you must do is make sure the numbers you’re being given include “soft” expenses such as vacancy allowance and maintenance & repairs.

With Chase you need to bear in mind their 5/24 ruleThe only business cards that report to personal are Capital One and DiscoverHome Depot and Lowes Commercial accounts i got after a year or so of net 30 payments with the well known suppliersIf you have a personal Amex account , business cards are usually a soft pullStagger the applications paying attention to which bank pulls which bureau in your state

Emerging economies increasing their standard of living will drive demand for commodities through the roof (both hard and soft).

I never use a state issue contract, they are too soft.

The other cheap update you could do is to but in some brushed nickel or oil rubbed bronze towel holders, toilet paper holders, etc (whichever matches the faucets).

This will go over asking and probably by at least 15-20% maybe more.this property needs 500k worth of work. plus or minus 100K. 8-10 months turn around timeExit strategy would be to split the duplex into 2 TIC units.One unit could re-sell for 1.1-1.2 MIL the other 900k-1.0 MIL.On the low end re-sale could be 2MIL and high side costs 600K assume another 200K in soft costs (closing, carrying, permitting, plans, etc) On the high side resale 2.2MIL with low estimate on costs 400K and still assume 200K in soft costs.Would anyone pay over 1.2MIL?

The only new things we bought were the mattresses (Zinus 12" Green Tea), linens, towels etc.