Notify the seller and the seller's agent how much money it will cost to call a medium to exorcise the ghosts!    

Or you could be the 5 th guy walking in to the house which is "under contract" to give her a "bid"Also - lets say the investor/buyer has to wait until the property is under contract to talk to a contractor , I just went under contract for  a property on 21st ,  I had few references that I could call , but surprise , none of them even answered , now I have to get new referrals , call them , schedule walk through s and out of the 4 who answered , 3 are clearly out of contention as these are the ones who want 50k for a medium end kitchen job ( no problem with this - they can charge anything ) but if we had a conversation before the  property was under contract , it would have saved their time and my time .

How many of them , after all teh negitiations , decide to honor the commitment  ( cases such as a highly "lucrative" retail kitchen job , I have no problem with these 50k medium end kitchen jobs , if the owner and contrcator are happy , but do you think they will show up to your job site - this is a continuing threat )Now if you start working with them :1.

the opportunity for the individual small to medium sized investor in commercial properties is in those properties not considered suitable for institutional ownership.

They do that for awhile and then want to get a  manager and now they overpaid for a property.Another mistake is using property expense estimates percentages for higher rent and quality of tenant properties and then applying that to medium to lower income type properties.

Obviously there should be a happy medium.

Which is a bit hard to measure if you aren't actually AT the property (for me, anyway), though he does offer a method (length of house x width of house x 2).

However, it is my belief that the bulk of the areas in those neighborhoods will not be great medium term bets. 

Looking at Jose answer ....in short flipping is high risk high reward gamebuying door for cash-flow is like medium risk low reward game.RE developer is very high risk high reward game.that's the way i look at it.

Hi!So I bought a duplex with a friend in Casper WY a while back this past year, which is actually a non-conforming because it also has a finished basement. It's located a couple blocks away from the major city hospita...