You may wanna consider starting a "Member Blog" about your remodeling process - http://www.biggerpockets.com/blogs - as I think case studies and real life stories are so great for learning from.

Some good free books on Amazon are "Real-Estate made easy" by Brian Haskins "The Ultimate Real Estate Investing Blueprint" by Sean Terry "No Bs Real-Estate Investing" By Preston Ely and "Flipping Houses Exposed: 34 Weeks In The Life Of A Successful House Flipper" by Danny Johnson.

I remember a widow that was our 4th deal telling me when the deal was over she couldn't believe it when I showed up at her door but I was offering her a solution and then she told me she had two other properties to sell so she could get on with her life and asked us to help her on those.

And maybe there will be a itty bitty bit of networking value to tip the scales.Guru-rater John Reed has him on his crap list, fwiw, so probably a low-life upseller :)

I've been in SoCal my whole life.

I got numerous quotes at $2.75/sf for all of the above.

Later I want to learn other types of real estate investments and grow to have a better life for my daughters and myself.

Hopefully one day I would be providing valuable insight to future members who are in my situation right now.Aside from working and family life, I've picked up running and I am currently training for my first Full Marathon!

Check are they really a student and do they have a major that is going to take some time out of their life to study.

For numerous reasons.