Not to mention there tends to be no method of identifying those assets pre-purchase.

Here are some great books that I highly recommend that I've read in the past year in no particular order: 1- The Magic of Thinking Big (the size of your belief = the size of your success) 2- The 4 Hour Week - Tim Ferriss (productivity and leveraging technology and 80/20 rule) 3- Eat that frog - Brian Tracy (productivity, focusing on 80/20 rule) 4- Lean Startup Method (bootstrapping and adaptive learning) 5- How to Win Friends and Influence People (classic on working with people) Enjoy.

That being said, I have a couple questions regarding the exit strategy for my personal residence.1) Is it more beneficial to complete all the work, minor and major (IE: Windows, doors, trim, interior lighting, etc.) and try to sell for top value while obviously putting a bunch of money into it?

I think I understand the basic concepts of wholesaling, flipping, lease to own and other methods that are supposed to be the no money, no credit way of investing.

Hi guys,Does any of you have a good method to obtain a complete list of addresses of a particular city or county in an electronic format?

If you break out each item its really, really easy to say "that's too much, I'll trim that" and then you're down to 30% of rents.Even brand new roofs and furnaces need replacement someday.

Joe Smith investor would rather get 15% total return YoY in a SFR than 2-6% in the slots market)As others stated above, you may need to differentiate your market or method of sourcing deals.

But I got a couple of interesting questions for anyone who's reading this:What reading material can I pick up to learn the lingo.Is your investing method a product of the area you're living in or the method you've tried and just turned into your bread and butter?

And trim, same as posts or different?

Tax Guru's,I purchased rental property for the first time this year and am quite the Newbie to renting and taxes.My question is whether I can use different methods to expense my car versus my wives car.