I was watching this thread and wondering if your pricing at Lowes and other distributors was at contractor pricing?

So I kicked the habit - I stopped going to seminars and started to apply some of those ideas that were preached by speakers who were experts at extracting fees from me.I started to attend real estate auctions, studying the process - watching others make a lot of money - I decided to get a credit line - increase my credit card limits and started looking for properties (cheap- ugly buildings) in the neighborhood where real estate auctions were taking place - my primary goal at this time was to learn the market in the area where I wanted to control real estate - I would look at 50-60 houses (but made no offers - when agents would try to qualify me I just said "I have a small inheritance and will not need financing) - I kept a journal of the price per square foot,  comparing properties, and all comments made by sellers and agents (this helped me to find the seller dominate selling motive),  that was helpful - but I soon discovered that I was just looking for real estate in the conventional way  - I needed to do something else - so I started to look for owners of real estate who had problems (I applied Power Prospecting formulas) and at the same time studying creative real estate techniques from the old masters in the industry - became a member of the Washington Real Estate Exchange, hosted a real estate investor club and started to give mini creative financing seminars  while networking with those I wanted to emulate. 

@Derek Antonissen Im saying be cautions buying now, Prices are inflated, I watched the last crash as a Broker listing foreclosures, and saw plenty of people jump in when the market was good, and many lost them when the market tanked and they could not support the value when they had to re-up there loans.  

Watch out for recapture, so you might want to consider a 1031 exchange if you do sell outright.You could consider selling under a lease/purchase agreement, wrap/Sub2 (if allowed) or outright sale.Hope that helps!

Video based courses that you watch at a brokerage office is as progressive as we've gotten here in Mass.

We did actually, I work downtown so I went to Belle Island to watch the eclipse.

I've been watching properties come and go on the MLS, and it seems like most multifamilys with solid numbers don't last more than a couple of days.  

Here are 10 items to watch over the next year to see how bad it's going to get for Chicago's taxpayers.1.

We are pretty sure there are squatters in that one - and the cops have been watching. 

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