The role I have been given is to come in and make everything more efficient, especially on the renovation side of things.

They partnered on the deal and was a huge learning curve, one of which I've based a lot of my desired direction on.I continue to learn and grow and am now employed by that startup rehab company as their workflow, systems and structure manager - Establishment Officer - ensuring that the Rehab Machine is as efficient, effective and profitable as possible.Thank you to BP and I look forward to contributing to the wide world of REI.Cheers,

Eventually, i would like to be renovating older urban homes/buildings into extremely green and efficient homes/apartments in new urbanist ( is that word?)

It might be fun to do your own work, but as an investor it's not the most efficient use of your time.Good luck with the next rehab!

It was USAA, they insure all our properties as we're not over their limit yet, and it was our own home, so may be more efficient with different policy.

But in my opinion it’s made researching properties much more effective and efficient.

I have received most of my deals from relationships I have developed with REO brokers as well as asset managers.Over the last year, I started playing the MLS numbers game as well in an effort to get more deals in this tight market.I have developed a new system to allow me to play the MLS game most efficiently and successfully which I will be sharing soon.I am a firm believer that relationship building is key to getting deals.In addition, if you are not working the short sale market (at least in my neck of the woods) you are really limiting your chances of getting deals as REO's are much harder to come by for rehab investors, the spreads are thin and the inventory is small.

I'm still a little on the new end myself, but am being more proactive in communicating on these forums (although sitting back and reading endless posts and learning is much more efficient at times to me!)

You should get some CPA advice on the most efficient way to setup and post to each of those entities.

I'd say, replace with energy efficient fans!