*types as hard as he can be to be heard*Ninja... great... she's already dangerous and beautiful... and now she wants to expand her real estate knowledge and network to be rich!

Some of it is flat out beautiful and would be awesome to keep but it's really tough to find guys to salvage it.

They aren't sexy, you will probably be called a crook and a slumlord behind your back, but if managed right, (and believe me and my gray hair, owning and running one will not equal money for nothing), they chug cash flow money like nothing I've seen yet if you actively work them.

Hello it is me the newbie who is always looking for a way to get er done using innovation and creativity.a few months ago I posted that I took in two handymen/contractors as tenants the houses still needed some work and i offered a reduction in rent in exchange for their attention to these mattersI want to update you on the experience.in unit A the nicer of the two homes the contractor/tenantdid sand and stain the cabinets beautifully installed a chandelier and painted pretty much the whole house interior, no hitches or hiccups in house B the tenant performed 1/3 of the work began working with my personal contractor made a few grand on a couple of jobs and ended up breaking the lease and sneaking out in the middle of the night so to speak.lesson?

Santa Barbara is beautiful...

We offered to settle at 125K in 2008; I only agreed to the 37.5K just to get this guy out of my hair, close out and move on.

Hi Mary,I'm new too, just responding to your thoughts on giving up if this deal doesn't happen...I fell in love with a house, beautiful duplex that had EVERYTHING updated.

I plan on adding to my portfolio soon, and am looking at 3 and 4-unit buildings.Oh, and full disclosure, I actually don't have this much hair, but hey it was an old picture that was handy.

It has a bad reputation but if you go drive down - there is beautiful brownstones that are SUPER close to Fort Greene and the gentrification there with yuppies is changing fast.

Here is my situation:We have a beautifully maintained home built in 2004.