Unfortunately some of these costs are fairly close to fixed whether you are renovating a $250,000 or $5000,000 house which makes it even more challenging to operate in the lower cost housing space.

This is a tangible way to do it in most markets, even very good ones like Nashville, but Cali this is different.

And I dont even rent that high.What is your experience with people with bad credit?

It didn't even cover half of my mortgage but it still helped.  

Even if you take photos and use an app to view it with the new flooring (ie create an 'after' image online) that you can use, I'd still wait a bit. 

One neighbor said someone even burglarized the property due to the attention they were grabbing. 

Accountants are in such demand, that the best are not even accepting clients half the time.The other problem I see often with accountants on here is that they specialize in larger investors, and have really high prices when you as a smaller investor do not need all the bells and whistles.Another thing I see is folks thinking they need to have a tax professional in their state.

Break even on cash flow, purchase equity, appreciation?

They're so many options and even when you get it narrowed down... there even more options to choose from to make it exactly what you want.   

I didn't even mow the grass!