Anxious to see rates on our $5M product later this month.

Last month my neighbors garage caught fire and turned the the carriage house into a total loss.

Some ways to work with a designer to lower costs would be to have them only do selections and you perform the ordering and installations.

If you don’t use 20% down, then you pay a monthly fee into your mortgage payment.

To raise capital from investors I gave “talks” at various real estate investment groups and self directed IRA providers (about 5 per month).

That's roughly $1,500 per month to you in interest payments. 

We just closed on one last month.

Remember that most good tenants give notice at the end of the month, so if you post something for rent on the 25th to get someone in in less than a week, chances are you will appeal to the exact type of tenant you want to avoid.Determine if your place needs any work, leave time to do that and try to post it for rent in the first 10 days of the month.

Our expenses are about $1,400 monthly (plus the occasional oil fill up).

We made several improvements to the property when we got it - a totally new gas line, a totally new water line including all the lines from the street and pex plumbing installed.