It has to do with dividends vs self employment tax on a part of your income from flips.

You need to employe an architect, designer, engineer, and/or GC that has experience in something similar to help make the project come to fruition.

The good thing is most of the lots are large enough that you can pave a driveway past the house into the back yard and the nicer homes have a nice two car detached garage.

It's one of the downside to self-employment that's not often discussed but yeah, there's that challenge.

Hello! My name is Stacey and I am new to BP. My main concern is how you should approach certain areas with relatively high unemployment rates. I want to buy a property near my hometown. However, the unemployment ra...

Both of them work for the same employer, a federal agency that won't even verify that they are employed there unless we go through a lengthy and invasive verification process ourselves.

Interest rates, stock prices, employment and real estate seem to be closely tied together and if you ask me stocks are currently artificially inflated by money being printed like crazy, while wages have not kept up with the rising cost of living (including real estate).  

You are a W-2 wage earner, steady income and not self employed) then I've had good luck with Wells Fargo, B of A and US Bank in terms of great rates and good processing/approval times that allow me to close escrow quickly which can help you look more attractive to sellers.

@Wade Sikkink I once received an employment application from [email protected] {or [email protected] ...

( unfortunately many tenants in america fall into this category- so i understand you but you are a landlord and you look from the landlord's perspective....want it or not), other reasons are illness, divorce, chemical adictions, loss of employment due to ****** economy, e.t.c. to name just few..........ohio is particularily affected with high unemployment rate.