Just recently found a great electrician and plumber in Chesapeake, and found a painter 3 years ago in Raleigh that I used in all 3 homes there as he works at reduced rate on weekends when his boss doesn't need him, brings all his own ladders & supplies and even fixes drywall when needed.

The competition is fierce right now because quality inventory is in short supply and there are new foreign group out there that are willing to forgo the 70% rule and pay more for the property and work on a volume perspective.

We supply 150,000 cash buyers. we'll teach you how to contact them, how to talk to them and find out what they want. then you go get the deal and BAM they buy, you close.

However, I've only had to do it once so far).On water and sewer, they can put in separate meters, but we'd have to track down each separate unit's supply line, etc. so we just bear with that.

If you want to buy your buy and hold inventory from the REO supply you are going to have to have the cash or borrow it..maybe seek private funds.

In some cases I had to supply LLC documents showing I was the owner and in others I had to sign a staement.

When you are listing a rehabbed home at FMV, you should receive ample interest regardless.

You might be right in the case of a really crap tenant out for blood...but then again we have to think of what action got him to that point of seeking revenge to go to such an extreme requiring such effort.I have low income tenants and I have never once owned a building where the tenant supplied/paid for heat.

With these units "in the attic" what challenges exist in the lower units when you have to run supply and waste plumbing and electrical wiring (from a basement?).

Law of economics is supply and demand.