ana=lnkSome highlights:19,000 new jobs are expected this year after 13,000 last year.Unemployment rate could drop below 5% in a year.Office space is at an 88 percent occupancy rate and rising with very little new coming on line this year.Retail is at 94 percent occupancy.

So I think I could make a reasonable argument for the 50% percent rule becoming the 40% rule in my case.

They should also have a floor slab elevation survey so they know when they have the foundation back to the "reference" elevation.The piers may not be pressed piers, but 95 percent of the time they are.

It is 95 percent gutted and has been re-framed.

I agree now that a college degree is seen as necessary.Back when I graduated high school in 1993 a college degree still had value more than just being seen as what a high school diploma used to be.The problem I see is where many get degrees in things that rack up student debt but pay little to no money as a specialist degree.Other times they get a general business degree.They do this to be versatile.I think it hurts most job applicants as yes they can apply for many generalist jobs but so can a bunch of other people with the same vanilla degree.I believe if you are going to go this route at least get your Masters degree.That extra schooling will put you ahead of many applying for a job.You will earn more over your lifetime and statistically get promoted faster.If you want to be special and make an extraordinary life for yourself you have to avoid the herd mentality and stand out.So I say don't go to college for the sake of college.I know people with degrees that just can't get a job so they work retail as a manager making a crappy 12 bucks an hour.They go to apply for a job for their degree and surprise there is 50 other applicants many who have ten years experience where their company went out of business.Now you have over qualified applicants that employers can land at entry level wages and the students with degrees can't get a foot in the door.If a student can get free tuition they don't have to pay back with student loans or their parents have a fund to pay it for them then great have at it.If the student is going to simply rack up tens of thousands even over 100k of debt and then hit the world making 15 bucks an hour they will be in a world of hurt.Especially since you can't get rid of the student debt in BK.In the old days you worked for a company and gave them your heart and soul and in return they took care of you in retirement.These days people change jobs on average every 5 years and about 80% of the work force hates their job and does it out of necessity.I wouldn't call that a quality way of living.

You can only put certain items in the roll off dumpsters.Depending on the number of tires you can call a local tire recycling plant.They will pick up the tires for free and melt them down to reform tires again.I am talking if someone dumped illegally thousands of tires on your property.I see this around Atlanta with vacant apartment buildings.Instead of taking to the dump these businesses dump trash at these vacant buildings in the dark of the night.As far as trash outs getting jobs from banks require you to be heavily insured.You do not make much money at all.The banks bid ridiculous rates.It is not the REO brokers fault you get paid late or not at all.Many banks use asset management companies and the broker has to hound them sending multiple invoices to get the money.Sometimes the bank/asset company re-assigns the listing and stiffs the broker for trash out costs.After broker/agents take a 1 percent share fee with the asset management on their 3 percent commission they only make 2 percent.The bigger national banks have their own companies do all the trash outs.

SHANNON SIDBERRY, he's looking for specifics, not marketing hype.For example: We typically find deals at X % of ARVorWe are willing to pay as high as X % and X pointsor, even betterWe are willing to offer an interest payment of X percent and an equity split of XA 90K loan on a property worth 125K is NOT attractive, and 1 year is too long for a loan on a property that needs minimal repairs.

A typical mistake by new investors is not hiring a quality PM company and figuring in 8 or 9 percent as the or whatever it is for the area in your investment returns.It's not what you pay for the PM company it's what you GET for what you pay.Always remember that.

But I'm on the inside, in Baton Rouge, so my two cents is worth more like a dollar fifty.

But that can change, because for just $26,199 I will mentor you through the whole process and only ask that you pay me 40% percent of your future profits...what a deal!