I am, and hope to choose the right weekend.

It is too overwhelming for them to do that on their own and with gas at $4.00/ gallon +, most are choosing to use a real estate agent who can easily pull together properties and drive them around.

I would like to be able to lowball a few offers to buy so that I can repair something as far as paint and possibly flooring , maybe a few other small repairs.

I have seen MANY "resident managers" that had a pretty free hand with supplies that "fixed" and painted neighbors homes/apartments for a little "extra" income.

You simply must have a self-directed account and then you may invest in anything you choose, excluding life insurance policies and collectibles.

The seller is going to choose the title company, there is no way around that.

What financial independence says is that your are a sophisticated enough investor to take on larger and more profitable projects that are beyond the scope of the financially dependent.The key is that these new projects are within your control to choose now.Tim

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If you like to "hope so and wait" type of person, choose stocks.Real estate on the other hand has all the benefits.Their values are like a slow moving train that youget to inspect, repair, rent, insure, buy 7 different ways,sell 7 different ways.You can see it coming (appreciate) and going (depreciate)in time enough to get on and get off and make a profitbefore, during, after, and all around.There is no comparison - real estate is the best hands downas long as you're competent(take all costs into consideration) and prepared(have the best support team).Sure yo can kind of be 'competent' and sort of 'prepared'in buying/selling stocks, but again, it is still a "hope so and wait" 'technique'.

Half that for a minor componet. 5k to cosmetics (carpet, floor, paint, fixtures & covers, minor landscaping) So a cosmetic fixer that needs a bathroom would be 5k to spruce up and 5k for the bathroom.