Your spirit changes when you're not chained to a payment (not to mention your DTI).Get a functional beast that gets you from a to b while while hauling what you need and be free, Chris!

You might feel like you're making a lot of progress with 80k houses but over the long haul you'll make more with more reasonably priced homes. 150-250k in the Houston market. 

When it comes to mortgage lenders, not just hard money, all of the loan products, rates, points etc are generally going to converge to about the same so whats really important and effective is to focus on a lender that you can trust for the long-haul with reliability and service that you can use over and over as you build a portfolio

I'm rehabbing a property with  wood flooring to refinish or Carpet I'm in it for the long haul so I think I am going with Refinishing.

All the best If you buy right, manage right in east cleveland versus san diego which would do better over a 15 year haul? 

You also have big capital expenses that come up if you're in this for the long haul, like it seems you are.

A haul-out is a few thousand bucks.

I toyed with my company name for a while because when you pick a 'less professional' name, there is a lot of room to go wrong with it.

That seems to work out over the long haul for a portfolio of properties. 

@Bram Klein The tear down, hauling, and site prep will vary substantially by area but prepare for $10k per site as an extremely rough guideline.