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Once you pick such strategy, concentrate on it only without any deviation to excel in it.Best of luck!

I was going to create a rough excel spreadsheet to jot down some notes, but wanted to see if anyone has a good template or a program they would recommend.Thank you in advance for your input!

Illinois - most product is in crook county and costly and lengthy foreclosureThere are others but some of them have so little product anyways (ala Massachusetts / Connecticut etc.)

We didn't initially intend to have the house for 5 years, so the ARM products had appeal because of the lower interest rates.

We didn't initially intend to have the house for 5 years, so the ARM products had appeal because of the lower interest rates.

@Nick RutkowskiMicrosoft Project is a project management software product, developed and sold by Microsoft.

Consider the IRR of your cash flow below based on various holding periods (you can do this in Excel):3 yrs -   IRR is 28%5 yrs -   IRR is 17%10 yrs - IRR is 9%I'm comfortable with a 15% to 16% IRR (i.e.

Rehabbing and cash flow production What was the outcome?

My realtor, Jaeson Baltazar, is an excellent agent.