I am buy and hold; however, during the rehab period I use 'vacant property' coverage from American Modern.

I purchased the property for $150,000 in Oct'2015 and spend the winter of that year renovating it from it's dungy 1950's look to a traditional/modern lake house.

Hope to see you thereHomework for Newbys Bring a distressed/property lead and a laptop and we will show you how and where to look up the information to contact the owner.

I'm interested in getting a multi-leveled building that has been used as retail and office space right in the heart of a downtown and converting the space into modern apartments for professionals/executives and/or younger/hip crowd.  

In my experience as a contractor the trend is restoration of old homes with the addition of modern amenities is what more affluent people are wanting.

To be clear this is not your modern boxed office building but one of different spaces built at different times having smaller units.

I hooked up my laptop directly to the hdmi cable and nothing" (i'm guessing too much moonshine) me: "Interesting that's a brand new tv try putting it on HDMI1, also why are you messing around with cables?"

Having laundry in the unit I think gets superior rents and might be one of the highest ROI upgrades.The rental should have a modern feel vs. an old house feel. 

If I've created a nice, modern rehab with an enormous, rusty relic outside HVAC unit that will turn off buyers, I replace it. 

Receptacles intended for window-type holiday lighting may be placed under windows.”Even if more receptacles than the minimum required are installed in a room, no point in any wall space is permitted to be more than 6 feet from a receptacle.”In addition in more modern homes AFCI protection is required for bedroom receptacles/outletsand receptacles need to be tamper resistant (210.12 Arc-Fault Circuit-Interrupter Protection & 406.12 Tamper-Resistant Receptacles).Lighting Required NEC 210.7 (A)(1)210.70 Lighting Outlets Required(A) Dwelling Units.In dwelling units, lighting outlets shall be installed in accordance with 210.70(A)(1), (A)(2), and (A)(3).(1) Habitable Rooms.At least one wall switch–controlled lighting outlet shall be installed in every habitable room and bathroom.Exception No. 1: In other than kitchens and bathrooms, one or more receptacles controlled by a wall switch shall be permitted in lieu of lighting outlets.Exception No. 2: Lighting outlets shall be permitted to be controlled by occupancy sensors that are (1) in addition to wall switches or (2) located at a customary wall switch location and equipped with a manual override that will allow the sensor to function as a wall switch.