Mainly a buy and hold strategy focusing on duplexes on up and at some point adding a modest commercial piece.

Welcome Neal, Two pieces of advice, Participate and be active here, and search through the existing info there are many articles for new investors.

-Find a vacant property with repairs,-Get discoiunted rent on a lease from owner with option, -cloud the title,then -sandwich the deal to a rehabber - contractor for a JV piece of the profit-Rent it out for a bit more than you are paying the seller-Your sandwich spread should be enough for both you the REI and the rehabber to both profit.

When one (1) or more layers of roofing exist, all layers of roofing must be removed prior to the installation of a new roof.2.Existing Decking: New decking overlay is required for asphalt shingles if old existing decking is made of lumber which is larger than 1” x 6” pieces of lumber or if the gaps between the boards are more than 1/8”.3.Minimum Slope: The minimum slope is 4:12 for standard single ply underlayment installation.

This has allowed my income to increase more and more each year and has given the bank piece of mind that my debt to income ratio's are in check.

Love everything about it except the wrought iron spindles for the staircase.Other homes in the development have double spindles for each piece of iron.

I'm Darrick,a wet behind the ears investor in Philadelphia, PA - My wife and I are interested in interested in wholesaling to get our feet wet but because we have a few dollars socked away we have other options once we get a live feel for the business.

I'll end by saying there's a LOT more to this and I haven't addresses all of your "concerns", however handling the call volume is a BIG piece of the "buyer puzzle".

The truth in lending is a plus for a buyer but why not go further and tell the public the big past melt down was not the big boobo of the buyers in that they were hexed from the beginning in that their mortgage was cut up in pieces and sold everywhere and investors wanted a bigger bang for their buck

On a cape we did the large front windows were the old single pane double hung.We had a company here just make two pieces of glass sealed for insulation for each opening.The glass was also tinted.Then we framed the glass inserts in with jamb extensions etc. it looked great & saved us a lot on special order prices.Another one we replaced all the windows with those we could find at a contractors excess stock depot.