My thoughts would be to make the third floor a master suite for the three bed unit and have combine two tiny bedrooms into one on the second floor, yielding a three bedroom total for that side.I thought about the floor joists as well.

Start with a small multi flip using hard money (or a combination of my money and hard money) and then trade up to bigger multis (1031 or carry over the note) until I reach the kind of cash that the bank or lender would consider as enough skin in the game to lend me the rest.4.

Some combination of contracting for a title report and / or reviewing the county recorder's records.Any conveyance. including a mortgage lien in the property, will be recorded in the county's records.

I am now doing a combination of Mailers and door knocking.

It does not matter to me if they base it off the home or me or a combination. 

Cash Flow Market Value Stability Appreciation A Combination of these oCash Flow and Appreciation have an inverse effect oMarket Stability will provide Predictable Results, but Values & Rents remain flat.A few Questions to consider: Is your evaluation standard Repeatable (i.e. 10-12% CAP Rate: Can you continue to find properties which meet this criteria?)

Combine this with the strong blue collar/trades like Boeing, etc. and it's solid.* Houses prices: I agree, prices have rebound, even surpassed 2007 in Seattle directly.

Maybe find a job doing something to combine your real estate desires such as working for a property manager or an assistant to real estate agent.

. % of profit.. or combination.... just private people acting like HML is really all it is.

For repairs I used 10-15% of rent for maintenance/repairs/capital expenditures combined.