Also, make sure your tenants are not blocking the heat registers and cold air returns, or it will likely trip the safety and you will be getting the 2 a.m. call.We made sure our leases address the tenant responsibility in this regard after purchasing a new property and learning the hard way.

Be mentally and financially prepared for speed bumps, road blocks, riots, fires, eathquakes and floods.

Then if you got the zoning change approved you will have to make 2 functional units which at a minimum will involve walling off separate sides, adding at least one exterior access point, and a new kitchen in one of them.

Bottom up is incrementally building your business through adding building blocks over time.Pick something simple and make it work.

Im looking to rehab and flip houses as access to my own contracting company would make things easier for me.Vice verse I hope to help the members with any advice to help the BP family progress with there own personal goals.

When we are showing an occupied properties we book a few blocks of time with the current tenants a week (say: Saturday afternoon between 13:00 & 16:00; Wednesday evening from 18:00 - 20:00).

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(right now planning on buy and hold though) Also a block away is a condo complex renting 2 bedroom one baths for 1000 plus 275 a month for HOA.

Does anyone know of a strategy where you can get first access to a bank's Foreclosure Inventory?

I recently attended a seminar in Las Vegas hosted by Joel Block.