I am glad that I am not the only one who takes twice as long and spends twice as much, haha.

- We've got an owner we're about ready to terminate because we email them information that they refuses to read and always wants us to call them and spend hours talking about it.

After spending all day dodging junk mail, junk e-mail, junk texts, and junk phone calls I have very little energy left for junk BP posts!

You could easily spend a lot of capital to start with something else but doing the house hack gets you started and your feet wet.

What's left after all that is your cash flow.Collecting cash flow to spend is an amateur play.

I think broader consumer taste is killing malls, which includes online shopping, but also even where people are choosing to live and how they are spending their time/money, more broadly.I worked for a company that bought a failing mall back in 2012 (online shopping was "killing retail" then too), redeveloped most of it into more open air power center and sold.  

People are going to start thinking about spending their tax refunds in the middle of January.

It's impossible to answer your question without knowing how much you have to spend to acquire the house.

If not they could spend money and time and offend buyers if they update the property incorrectly.There are other options, such as landlording.

Had to spend additional money to get everything fixed.