And I'm choosing to think first like Andrew Carnegie--try to mine gold out of people like you mine gold out of the ground...must go through all the dirt to get to it...and if that doesn't work I'll adopt Donald Trump's style.

     I have to tell ya, in vacation rentals, these are gold!  

These comments are gold here on BP, so Thanks yall!

The kitchen with the gold faucet was 2200 at Ikea.

All in all I really recommend finding someone you can trust that knows what they are doing, they are worth their weight in gold.

I would simply ask is anything in life ever gonna be perfect you can't pick a perfect time to have a baby because some ppl will tell you that you need the world some will say you only need love run your numbers under the worst possible scenarios if the place is vacant for a year if rehab takes double the time if there's still a slim profit you might have stumbled on a gold mine does it make since to just throw that away if the girl is cute she cooks she cleans your mom and sister like her do you walk away to find better?

Of course, maybe the toilet seats are gold plated, and he puts in marble floors, but....So, has anyone bought properties from this guy?

Even gold is flat relative to the dollar over the past year, meaning that it too lost about 10% of it's purchasing power if thought of as a store of value. 

You're sitting on a gold mine.

Our rentals are managed by a property management company, so they handle 100% of the fix-ups that are required (a good property manager is worth their weight in gold).