*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!

The only reason I believed the lady is because her lease wit the property management company was month to month and they had her stop paying them rent in December so she could move.

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

(Ironically, the smaller the job the larger the markup... middle and heavy jobs get smaller markups, and heavy to extreme jobs start getting larger markups again to cover the complexity of it)To wit - a carpentry crew tends to run between $600-900 per day (10 hour days), depending on crew composition and the type of work being done.

Frustrated at the apparent fraud he was witnessing, Lagow sent this chilling email to his supervisors at Countrywide Governance in February 2006:“At the risk of losing my job I am forwarding this email to you and want to relay my deepest concern for the situation addressed.

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...

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.

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.