@Ashish YadavLBP is not that big of a deal, unless it is old and paint chips are falling off the walls, or until you do a renovation and create a bunch of dust/debris.

I am a huge DIYer and so far - Laid the vinyl flooring 1500sqft- Installed Recess lights (40 lights)- Built a retaining wall (35ft)- Built a pergola from ground up- Interior paint (appro 2500 sqft)- Built a wooden board-on-board fence (75ft)also, a software engineer (nerd 😊) I am 38yrs old and have some milage to do DIY to buy a partially run-down property and upgrade it.Looking forward to learning new things from the members and seek advice.

These areas seem to offer affordable prices for me as an amateur investor but I just want to make sure I'm not wasting valuable time analyzing an area that's largely stagnant.

The most dangerous part is that he had a rifle and I didn't want him shooting at someone or painting my walls. 

If you don’t run the numbers before seeing the house you’re wasting time.

It gets you started, because you won't want to waste that credit inquiry and go through the work, only to never submit an offer on something, and secondly, you will have one less barrier in your way when you DO see something that you want to place an offer on.

I'd be interested to know where the drain/waste/vent stack from the 2nd floor comes down to.

Spector, the erratic and disgraced producer behind the “Wall of Sound” recording technique (who died in January), paid $1.1 million for the French Chateau-style mansion in 1998.

Sounds like I need to dive deeper and find other resources.Originally posted by @Jaron Walling:@Matthew Gu You're not really missing anything in your calculation.

My wife and I were ready to walk away, but didn't want to waste a trip.