Make sure you check out Bingo Burger downtown.

I got some cheap ones from Home Depot for my rental for like 99 cents a square foot and they look great.

In other words, you can shoot yourself in the foot and in some cases be liable for bad decisions.Insurance is another world too, you'll need to understand any perils that may effect you and ensure your tenant is properly insured.All depends on the size and scope of what you're saying when you say "commercial". :)

I'm just starting some homes and also a 500 foot addition on my new home here but will be gone nearly 2 months, so my input would come after that.

I know enough to get quality people with good referrals/references and that have reasonable fees.Thanks David,Your approach sounds great.Buying 1 or 2 from turn key providers and that gets your foot in the door in that particular market where you can then start to buy and fix yourself.Well done.Thanks

You can get a new roof done for about $250 per square, or $2.50 per covered square foot assuming its a simple roof with a normal pitch.

Hello BP members :) im 19 and trying to find a foot in the door job to get into the real estate world.

Once they get their footing they then form some type of corp., or at least they should as there are some risk in this business.I also would have to agree with Karen Margrave, avoid the "$997" programs.

I purchased a program on real estate, rehab and flipping recently and one of the "perks" of the program was consultation/foot work for opening an LLC (I of course have to pay the applicable state fees).However, in my introduction forum I got the impression that an LLC was unnecessary and maybe harmful to start with.

One thing that does help us out, is that after re-measuring the house it appears to be roughly 1900 sq foot not the 1176 that the county thinks it is or the 1500 that we gave the realtor to get the $68-72k range.