I would encourage you to take a trip to Indianapolis at least once and drive around with your REA and see some areas in person.

The city of Chicago now has a new team and they are encouraging  “Equitable Development”.

It is very easy to use, I encourage you to evaluate a lot of properties and buy the best deal.

Animal breeders are encouraging and giving information to buyers, and word of how easy it is to do is spreading among tenants.

I'm looking to incentivize him, encourage him to take more leadership in project management, align interests and keep him around for the long term.Background: My first deal I made $210K pretax profit on $225K all-in investment, second one made $72K on $233 all-in.

@Jim K. yes, part of the reason I didn't want to pay for the materials was that I didn't want to encourage this guy to think that whenever he feels like updating something, I'll happily pay for whatever he thinks should be installed.

I would encourage you to start keeping track of all your rental property expenses.

I've been surprised at the difficulty of lining up a general contractor, and even more-so at the difficulty of getting meaningful info out of them.

The person selling the house is not doing this for free so I would encourage you to consider this.  

I get the positive encouraging attitude, but at times it needs to be tempered with a bit of realism.