A Google search will produce a plethora of articles talking about this very thing.

Hey Patrick, welcome to BP.This is a great place to learn a ton of stuff and to meet great people from all around.Read all the article and listen to the podcasts and you will learn a lot fast.

@Sharon Vornholt is a good resource here on the subject and has written numerous articles on this topic on the BP blog.

I actually saw this on Yahoo's news section, but the original article is from US News. http://money.usnews.com/money/personal-finance/articles/2014/03/24/what-you-should-know-before-dipping-into-home-flipping

Listen to all the podcasts, read all the articles on the main blog and be active in these forums and you will learn a ton about anything you want to know about real estate investing.Also make sure to connect with people on here.

That's a big hit too.In Cincinnati it costs about $300 per unit for all the treatments.FYI - here's a bedbug article I recently wrote: http://www.biggerpockets.com/blogs/4430/blog_posts/32442-bed-bugs-spotting-and-getting-rid-of-them

If you look at my blog articles here on BP, you'll know that I'm the biggest advocate ever of not just going off the written numbers on a property.

I hadn't come across the article yet its a step in the right direction thank you =).

That said,mi have read several worthwhile articles in them.

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