Hi All,My girlfriend and I have recently started our real estate journey.  My girlfriend, Amanda, or "Mandy", thought it was a good idea to document this adventure on her Blog.  We just finished our first flip, and sh...

Hannity has defended himself as we all would - as someone who fixes up dilapidated properties and improves communities by providing quality housing.

A fence is a investment/improvment for your property.

Major rehab and improvement to the property (turnkey SFR) over the last year, but seems a bit much.

@Timothy Hall I'd start by:-Putting together a specific plan for your investing business -Figure out financing-Make sure that you practice analyzing deals as much as possible -Put your team in place-Start looking for deals and making offers

I'll keep working on the numbers and be improving but this certainly helps to point me in the right direction.

I will not waste my time on an open house with curious neighbors, bored realtors and competing landlords.I am not afraid to adjust my asking price if I am concerned about losing out on a month's rent.I never follow up with a tenant- I don't want to shoe horn someone into one of my units and I don't adjust my standards, practices and rules.I have nice places, but even still- when a potential tenant shows up and they have to wait to be shown the unit because of others in line, it does something magical.Best of luck.

In my 2 prior situations it was 2-3 months of annoyance and then all was fine - with a lovely, improved property next door.

It is the most invasive of all home improvements, 2nd to maybe termites which I dealt with too!

I sort of end up on excel at the end of the year importing statements and trying to categorize expenses, improvements, etc.