Now after recent heavy rains I am informed a month later that water came in the back door and has ruined the floor, needs the whole room replaced. 

The draw back to these loans is that they are more paperwork heavy than the other "portfolio" types of loans....but if you have ever received a loan on your primary home, it's likely that you will go through the same type of paperwork here with conventional lending.

@Marisa AlvarezI you have a chance to upgrade your disposal, go with the heavy duty model with minimum 5/8-3/4 HP and stainless steel grind chamber.

It's competitive but because there is opportunity.

Hello BPs,Working on the goal to get my toes wet in the investment (Buy Hold) realm. Spoke with a few investors within my sphere, I have been told that I hold a powerful tool that being the VA Loan. However, given thi...

However, developers can sometimes overbuild such that all of their new apartments suppress rents and occupancies of their competition.

A large group like Keller Williams will have the best training but you'll also face some tough competition.

It wasn't until I had an old friend Justine Fey and  his wife Amber Rose reach out to me to do some repairs to a house they owned which had damage done to it from a kitchen fire started by a tenant.It was nice catching up with Justin because him and I both had a real  passion and love of Real Estate from a young age after High School...and so in catching up after so many years,  I decided gave them a really heavy discount on the repairs I had done.

The drive towards newer homes for investors has been that there is a lot of building going on and pricing is still very competitive with new homes making the difference between old and new pretty slim. 

My competition didn't have clean houses or there was no cable/wifi or there was no washer/dryer.