I am in the process of assessing my first multi-family building! It is a 140 years old three floor building (corner building) in main street of a small town. In second floor, one middle wall is sinking, creating abou...

Purchase price: $65,000 Cash invested: $75,000 Sale price: $217,000Located in the wonderful up and coming neighborhood of West Park this mid century modern split contains 3 bed and 2.5 baths.

If they aren't fully engaged and willing to see it through, it's a non starter.Likewise, unless this is the deal of the century with tremendous upside, the juice often isn't worth the squeeze. 

I recall saying stuff like this 9 years ago but ate my words, hahaThen a wise man told me not to count my chickens.....You're right, we only lock in a loss or profit when we sell... but, scary as it sounds, that's what's happened to my primary residence in LA right now - a place i bought 18months ago would sell for close to $200K over what i paid for it, and that's without all the rehab work i did to it to bring in into this century.

I don't know if the rules are different for 19th century homes or not.I will say that my house is clearly a 2-bedroom, with a potential for a 3rd if I wall the loft.

, I picked up a book she had gotten as a present, called What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist-the Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England, by Daniel Pool.

Over the last century, the most used approaches to creating value have been somewhere in middle, where some expertise is required.In this chapter, we will look at two approaches to creating value that require different levels of expertise and investment horizons.

In one particular instance my town received hundreds of thousands of dollars to clean up the site of a former grand hotel from the turn of the nineteenth century that had been abandoned with full above ground and below ground oil tanks.

The old turn of the century (the last century) architecture in some of the lower-income areas of Richmond and Petersburg is truly striking. 

I went from a local real estate office to Century 21 on Long Island.