They offered to do so since I am putting in the work to stage the event.

I get the reasoning behind this but the key question is at what stage of your business cycle.

Hello BP,I feel that I am at the information overload stage from all the amazing stuff I've discovered on this site.

My house should be fixed, staged and ready to sell by April so I guess that's not really that far off.

. $2,000 could be considered excessive if you are purchasing a $60K property but might be standard if the property is $300K.

Different people will have different viewpoints on this subject, but in general with prices having increased pretty dramatically over the past 3-4 years, many feel that we are well past the early stages of the cycle and maybe close to the end, but others feel there is still a long ways to go. 

In the planning stages:3 bedroom house, super-deep lot and an oversized 2+ car garage with alley acess. 

At your stage, use bids until you learn the costs through experience.

I am at the very beginning stages of learning about real estate investing, so that is why I am here.

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