As a general contractor, real estate broker, investor and developer this is when I climb to the top of the highest hill and yell to the top of my lungs....................N E X T!!

I'd just hit it with the rustoleum rattle cans or roller pain't if it's not supportive of weight.

I did physics undergrad so I guess I should have done Mech E if you have enough free time to take on REI lol :-P 

An e-mail notice of what your HOA " expects " is different from what they can compel.

Originally posted by @Nat Chan:I recently hired a property manager to manage my Atlanta 4 bedroom house.....Hi Nat Chan,It looks like you left the name of the person who sent you an e-mail in your OP.  

everyday you read about people like donald trump and how they bought their next great deal for millions of dollars. the only thing you can derive from that is " it takes money to make money". that statement is true enough, but it isn't the whole answer. no one ever got anywhere by giving up, is one of my favorite quotes. having good credit and access to money is almost essential to investing in real estate. what you need to do is stop worrying about where you are in life and start thinking about how you can get where you want to be in life. i have actually bought a house for $500 once. in fact, i have purchased several houses over the last 11 years here in buffalo, ny and the most i have paid for one was $4100. most of what i buy are tax sale houses, i. e., houses that have been foreclosed on by local tax authorities for lack of paying property taxes. granted, most of these houses are in such a state of disrepair that they probably should be burned down and started over, but buying this way teaches you how to become one hell of a great handyman. start getting your credit in order. you hear a lot about these " credit repair" companies all around. the truth is,  THEY CANNOT DO ANYTHING FOR YOU THAT YOU CANNOT DO FOR YOURSELF. go to annualcreditreport.com and get a free copy of your credit report from all 3 agencies. by law, you are entitled to a free report each year from each company. on annualcreditreport.com, you can dispute every negative thing you see. thats how these credit repair places do it. they go on here and dispute anything that looks negative. by law, the credit agency has to follow up on your dispute to any and all creditors that you dispute. these creditors have 30 days to respond back to the agency as to whether or not this report is accurate. if they fail to answer back in 30 days, then that part of the report is removed from your report, just as if it never existed. hence, your credit score goes up and you become more desirable to  lenders. 

@Danielle E. there's definitely a lot going on in Detroit right now. 

We do so through many methods but some examples are being a licensed brokerage, hiring people with education and experience, streamlining our processes and procedures, staying consistent with property output, practicing respect and integrity with clients, staying on top of the changing r/e laws, and probably most important- we stay on top of current market data in order to have an educated and in depth understanding of our market. 

Hey Dominic, I've been the that gym, weight room was a little scary, but it's a nice place.

Quote from @Scott E.: It's good to have a sense of urgency but you shouldn't be rushing to deploy $50,000 into real estate, especially in this market.