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Phone conversations over the course of a couple month.

Phone conversations over the course of a couple months.

Yawn....literally this conversation has been ongoing since before I was born.

And a multitude of other rules come up with that (along with other tax planning opportunities such as tax free appreciation), won't go into details as it is worth a conversation with a CPA and attorney.

A garage conversion to studio mostly hands off starts at ~$90K.

If you are there in person, leave something handwritten or have a conversation with someone who lives there you can get a big advantage over the people just buying lists.

Just brief conversations with one contractor who built a house on my street, and with another gc acquaintence, and the actual budget numbers provided to me by my neighbor who built across the street.

Based on the prior conversation I think I would try to work with Massey.

Just study hard, have conversations with investors with 20 years experience, and analyze deals.