You might hire a moon lighting landscape architect off Craig's List to give you some good ideas.

Many of these youngsters don't even know how to mow a yard or change a light bulb, and yet they want to own rental properties.

Could you honestly assess a bunch of holes in the wall, broken light fixture, and other stuff on the spot?

In a practical world, I am not paying $90/hour to install light fixtures, replace light switches, fix leaking faucets etc.

Also, the above books are fantastic recommendations, and will get your mind working in a different way, but are generally light on real content.It's my opinion that a solid financial education goes a VERY long way in making an investor.

I think its Karma, if you ask me.I tried lighting it on my own but was not able to light it.

I agree with Andrew and a light gray vs the white woodwork looks nice.

So, we did ALL the cosmetic work inside and out, HWF on first floor all sanded and refinfished and all new NICE carpet in the rest of the house, everything painted inside and out, all new light fixtures because former owners took every one but left the 2 drawer fancy dishwasher that no longer worked at all and the expensive brand drop in range that still worked I think, but was so unbelievably beat up and totally caked and coated with grease that we just scrapped it and replaced it with a new one!

As you can see though, the front of the house looks like it was updated at some point with the light blue siding and the sides and back of the house have the older looking, wider white siding and the color is kind of gray/white as I've seen before with older white siding.

And home-sellers desperate to sell will initially light up OD's switchboards - and then blast them on Yelp when they get offers blindly emailed to them that are at the high end of the wholesale spectrum, but without the kiss (building rapport) first to make it palatable.So go to your local REIAs, talk your wholesalers friends down off the ledge, educate your fellow Realtors and investors, lean your shoulders into this small rain shower, and remind yourself that the "disruptive storm clouds gathering in the distance" are little more than 15 minutes of fame rain shower that will quickly pass over us and then allow us to get back to work.If there is anything else I can to help you grow your business, please let me know.Very Best,-G