Like everything in life, something is cheap for a reason and vice versa.

Cheap, easy to change out, and they tend to last forever based on my experience.If they are currently installed in actual windows I would consider doing through the wall installation as I replaced them..

These look great from the outside but the particleboard seems to scream "cheap".

What are some key signs that you should run for the hills regardless of how cheap the price is for a rehab project.

That costs the owner money.After that, the PM should have good systems in place to make the operation move smoothly and to make sure everything gets addressed in a timely manner.The real challenge is the law of triple constraints, Done Right, Done Fast, Done Cheap.

Jason, somehow I could tell when reading your comment that you must know a few things about landscaping before I saw it in your header that you're in the biz, all good ideas and I always do the yard work including at least some landscaping work on any flip, even on a cheap house people will be turned off right away when they pull up and the first thing they see is a crappy looking yard!

Everyone got excited, Zillow was going "disrupt Real Estate," and "change the paradigm," and all the other marketing BS the techno-weenies in Silicon Valley spew about Real Estate (and every other cause celeb bandwagon they jump on trying to make a buck by automating everything - anyone remember web-based grocery deliveries?) 

It's less common in cheap houses but it's hardly new.stephen------------- Originally posted by @Derek Robertson: Hydronic cooling exists but it is very new and impractical.

I have sufficient funds for down payments but I won't be able to get any mortgages and I don't know how to escape this dilemma.What is the most efficient way for me to start buying cheap properties?

Fall River and New Bedford have pretty cheap stuff with the same kind of rents.NH is an option too.