A good jack of all trades will be worth his weight in gold as most specialty subs aren't interested in coming all the way out to replace a door knob and/or their hourly rate makes maintenance calls prohibitive.

. - Purchase price 85K- Estimated rehab cost - 40K - 47KWhich include: Repairs: Replace roof or Patch the roof.

I recently needed a roof replaced.

So far I've done some pretty major foundation repairs including completely waterproofing the foundation walls and replacing several rotted sections of the seal plate and several joist.

The guy has a PhD in engineering, which dispels the myth you need to be a college dropout to start a successful tech company.

Outside of replacing windows, it is very hard to execute interior rehab with tenants in place. 

Overall, the pool needed to be completely redone, needed updated windows, finishing out the garage with drywall, replacing the carpet upstairs, and a little bit of landscaping.

Hello,I was curious about the possibility of obtaining a mortgage as contract worker, if any of you know a way to get a mortgage in my current situation please let me know.My situation:Age: 23 graduated college with BS in Mechanical EngineeringJob: Working as a Mechanical Engineer at Western Digital through a contract agency (5 months in), I will start my second 6 month contract period in late February.

I plan to leave my current career in engineering to become a full-time "buy and hold" multifamily real estate investor.

To make a long story a little shorter I ended up moving walls, building walls, replacing every light, switch, outlet, new doors(inside and out), new cabinets, every piece of trim is new, built closets, rewired most of the house.