Neither our contractor, nor my husband and I when we visited once a year, ever realized they had painted the walls gold, had installed a kitchen backsplash, had basically destroyed the carpeting (covered by a lot of heavy furniture), spray painted the patio, stained the kitchen cabinets, replaced a light fixture, and apparently never cleaned the kitchen, nearly ruining all the new appliances. 

I haven't actually talked to any investors from that area, but that is a vital step in this whole process.

I say this because, people with full coffers AKA “wealthy people” have more options than most and therefore are able to opt out of owning property (which is one of many ways to financial security) due to the MANY FINANCIAL OPTIONS AND INSTRUMENTS that they presumably have at their disposal.Meaning – instead of buying a $500k investment property, I’ll sink my cash into (gold or silver) for example.

Integrity is worth more than gold!

About the same time that CA banned online vital records (death, birth, marriage).  

But for any new investors like myself who are going through these forums looking for information, the MLS is very useful for finding comps which is vital for finding out ARV of a property.

Your info and guest interviews are gold.

Like beach house, boat, or plane.Needs money to buy a business.Thinks economy is going blow up and wants to buy gold and guns. 

There's also the possibility that I can't tell the difference between gold and garbage and overlooked the info that I actually needed.I don't yet have a title company as I just moved down here to Tampa so it's on my to-do list.

Once we went off the gold standard, the rules changedThe fed keeps printing money, devaluing currency and in effect inflating asset prices.Gino