Having a lucrative career and being able to pursue these passions is no longer mutually exclusive and I expect some of these markets to continue to surge.Wind surfers are market makers along with those that like to ride their bikes in the mtns.. etc. 

Some of the hottest investor markets are the cities in the suburbs of Metro Detroit located near a hospital or auto maker, or BOTH if you’ve really found a good one.

Close the mouth, open the ears, thank your maker that this guy named Bob who's been there and done that so many times they dang near named the street after him, is willing to dig into this thing with ya and lend you experience and advice you couldn't afford if your mortgaged everything you got, ie IMEASURABLY valuable. 

"Flipping the panhandle"That sounds like a great new show, @Kevin Stone get down here and start filming!  

Back to the topic of Hubzu,, and all these other ignorant auction sites, they need to get out of the way and let us make hand written offers to the banks like the good ol days and it be submitted to the decision maker at that time.

if you have the ability to provide these appliances and  can hook them up safely and  easily -   do it and increase the rent a bit  ....if it is  challenging to get these installed / hooked up - forego the  appliances and make  rent lower for the tenants inconvenienece

I want an ice maker.

Find an attorney who's a Deal Maker!

Does anyone have any experience with the deal maker mastermind?

Str has elusion that it's money maker or break even, great to highlight the fact that break even most likely comes with no mortgage and even then hope you don't have any capital improvements that are needed. we work our strs the same way A great reason to not have all your eggs in the STR basket.