J Dorkins is always wary about short cuts, unprofessionalism, lack of sweat equity, being too trusting of people ... the list goes on.

So, with this kind of profit margin, and thousands of net-free credits lined up through land acquisitions that I've bookmarked, I don't sweat the last nickels.

All-in, this was about a $4.5k scope growth.Photos below.The original before and concept, side by sidePicking the paintTesting out the sampleCleaning prep beginsAnd about here I began to sweat a bit, the product looking a lot darker when applied en masseI had some white trim photoshopped and felt a little better.

You will enjoy the money you make off it a thousand times more if you earned that money with your own blood, sweat and tears.

As for now, we have our hands full putting some sweat equity into the duplex and continue to look for additional properties to buy, whether it's a buy and hold in Norfolk or a flip in Virginia Beach for a cash injection.

If I'm going through the blood, sweat, and tears to build this team, it makes more sense to me to do it in a solid but relatively steady market with decent returns that will be"investable" for a long time as opposed to chasing a growth market where if correctly identified I have a short window to make huge returns before the growth pushes it outside of my investment parameters and I have to start all over to move to the next up and coming market.

If you can find something you can put a bit of sweat equity into, you'll do well.Cheers!

Understand you will be finding deals and doing much of the sweat equity for a small piece of the pie.2.

If you can save $10K by next year, I wouldn't sweat it.

Unless you are doing sweat equity it doesn't make alot of sense