I live in LA now but I'm from Atlanta :)Househacking in LA- if you're going to refi it into cash-flowing properties, why do it at all and not just start with the cash-flowers?

Those houses are just going to be bull dozed to make way for the new retail outlet.

Purchase price: $82,000 Cash invested: $18,000 Sale price: $157,000 Contributors: Ivy Flowers First property I've ever bought and it was a foreclosure!

If an outlet can spin the news such that it helps their favorite candidate or party and/or hurts the opposition that's exactly how they'll spin it.  

Look into Tri County Investors that meets every Tues morning 9:30AM at Denny's near Tanger Outlets.

If you want to improve your community's appeal, donate time, money or property ... coach the little league team, buy and plant flowers in the town park every spring.If you are dealing with any other professional such as a lender, appraiser, tradesperson etc and if they need to know be upfront and tell them you buy, fix and flip homes, or buy and rent homes to make a profit.IMHO Mission Statements are a waste of time.

If we flipped it, we would definitely need to redo the bathroom and kitchen... but for a rental they would fly.We put in new waterproof plank flooring, replaced the doors, blinds,  and spent about $600 to get some simple plumbing and AC fixes done, and replaced the electrical outlets and switches with updated ones...  

Long term average return on stocks: 7%Typical return on rental real estate (cash on cash): 20-30%With that said, it's a bad time to be financing real estate right now, because they have been cranking up the interest rates... but it should still work out.  Lets

The walls don’t have any electric outlets, so seemed like a simple remodel.

See what comes out. Let