I've never heard a real-estate investor talk about real-estate investing with such enthusiasm, energy, and love of the work like the Crocodile Hunter did about his "job".

To tell you the truth I'm putting my $$$ and energy into the American Capital Investment Corporation but, I'm bias as I'm a district manager.We are taking the company public next month!

The stock market is too efficient.I prefer to spend more time on less efficient markets like RE where my extra knowledge and research will likely allow me to earn above average returns.

That house cost 85K in 1993, with about 13K in improvements in 1999.

He then put in a few improvements, new kitchen and a new driveway.

Really a good improvement since the commercial area is getting an update as well.Take care,

ive seen the home about 5 years ago and know the general layout and its potential ( it WAS kept up nicely), i dont see improvements costing anymore than 5k expecially since theres already long term tenants there.

As my bf says "you can't spend a quote" but I'll tell you, this is seriously increasing my energy levels!

Just got my return back from him, so I'm going to spend some time figuring out exactly how he categorized everything so I can do it more cleanly in the future.My understand is that the improvements you make before its rent ready go into the basis.

With the green movement being such a big deal and all the talk about energy efficiency I thought it might be a good way to target to new tenants.