In my experience a real buyer is someone who is willing to get to the house quickly after you've brought it to him or her, who can produce proof of funds immediately without hemming and hawing about it, and who can make a decision about whether to buy or not quickly.  

The quality stuff is produced abroad and over a longer period of time quality will beat crap.

I am considered a top producing real estate broker in the metro west area who takes so much pride in what I do.

Leaving the floor plan alone would have avoided the plumbing changes, and a lot of the framing and sheet rock work.

Does anyone have a blog that produces great results or a site that produces better results over a blog?

I've surrounded it with dirt and rocks and plants--a rock garden.

Ditto for it being agent owned..my buyers want nothing to do with that.Now Renae, I went the same route i.e..cards, bandit signs, driving the neighborhoods and tracking down sellers(MASSIVE waste of time-fuggehdabout it)etc...and found them to be inefficient or if they produced the occasional seller, they weren't motivated enough..While I don't know your financial situation, there are 800 #'s and ways to do direct mail that are fairly inexpensive...you'll just have to do some googling....you can get a voice mail for $10/mth and get good lists for under $100 as well as being able to mail direct from your computer....if these mehods are still out of your price range, then find a better paying job(I don't mean to sound so brusque) so you can afford to do direct mail...

I read something on Friday about the Green movement taking a nose dive - but I do not know if I could find the article again.I do not speak for all - of course - but most rehabbers and flippers want to produce the best product for the lowest possible cost.

." -- Thomas Jefferson"Any system produces winners and losers.

Now I have 13 income producing properties...thanks to OPM.