A good power wash and coat of paint on the outside goes a long way too.You can get estimates from many mobile home-specific contractors that understand these needs if you are not going to do it yourself.Basic repairs on a decent old home can run between $2,500 to $15,000 depending on how bad of shape it's in.

It's a commercial garage around 7K sq. ft. which was built in the late 1960's and will be used as a location for my car wash business.

 These are the known cosmetic updates that are needed: Flooring Pressure washing Fridge oven & dishwashers Paint rooms and outside banister Fan blade missing and fan needed in other room and 4 fans outsideHardware for master bath miscellaneous Yeah I was  originally advise that I should be able to get 1100 in rent but after further research it's looking like I would be lucky to get 1000. 

Writing off the interest expense brings it down to roughly a wash vs renting.

Are his files organized in one of those rotating lottery ball machines, crumpled up?

Then you get caught up in growing and building this machine that you have built and you do not realize your success until you take a moment and slow down.

Notemba, note buying cash machine are 2 podcasts. 

I use OpenOffice on my MS PC, and LibreOffice on my Linux machine.

One thing you should have a solo 401k and be maxing that puppy out.. the buy GREAT performing notes in it.. and or as other suggested do some syndication investments.. those are ALL about the sponsor.... you need to be very careful who you pick when you do those.and a Roth IRA as well.. go see a real good CPA and do some planning... if you like flipping nothing wrong with that.. but buying some income producing assets will help on tax's just depends.I would also look into MHP in those areas those can be a very nice little cash cow machine ...

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