I barely broke even on my first major rehab but I learned so much it was worth it 10x over.

Stretching to buy an investment where the math barely pencils out is trouble.

Barely enough for down payment on a small investment property and he’ll have to leverage it anyway.

I've been absolutely miffed as to why I'm not getting barely any interest from investors.

I barely believe me, and I lived through it in 2007.You're going to be doing much of this priming (and painting afterward) toward the end of the renovation period, not at the beginning.

@Kyle Smith If I was a guest myself, I would not want to deal with a charcoal grill, especially those ugly bare bone park grill.

Yes friends in several markets have commented to me about some of these deals in what were considered barely breathing markets.

I guesss I could rip out all of the finished walls, and put mortar (waterproof) on the actually basement walls, and baring the masonry will help me keep an eye out for the rest of the structure and to make sure it doesn’t reach the rest of the house?

Keep an eye out for my friend @Soli Cayetano aka Lattes & Leases speaking session!

So to pull out the two zip codes in Birmingham as an example, here is the census data about population growth:Zip code 35040: 2010: 14965, 2017: 16714Zip code 35235 2010: 19484, 2017: 19630So both were technically growing in this data, 35235 just barely whereas 35040 is better especially from a percentage perspective.