Carpets in high traffic areas in rental homes simply do not work and is the elephant in the room when it comes to unplanned expenses.

The reality is that wholesaling takes the most amount of work and makes the least amount of money.  

I hope one day that he will "SEE" it work and get to reap the benifits; and maybe some of that negativity will subside.

I am interested in paying cash for a short sale, it is a log home that needs tons of work and has been on the market 2 years, apparantly vacant at least that long.

This is definitely a rewarding business in regard to the work and return.

Maybe at the onboarding, also use solid check sheets and have a some info on how much work and costs are involved with smoke remediation....Let me know if you need more ideas or want any book recommendations.

After you are out of debt, and have saved a bit of money, then start thinking about investing it.It is possible that you could take a short cut around all of this if you were to secure zero down financing and start flipping houses or something.

@Gregory Van Heest Forget the credit and work history...cash talks....and I would leverage it....Do some research on Investing in Apartment buildings...Lenders care more about the deal than you personally...They only want your work and credit history, because they want to make sure you don't need the cash flow to pay your bills., and that you pay your bills on time, if you don't have credit you can do a no doc loan, and still get funded.

That guy you were talking to wants you to tell him he is getting a good deal but in reality he needs to do his own work and figure that out.

I would say she completed about $20,000 of work and pocketed the rest.