Ironically if you know that, for most small jobs by the time you are done dealing with a hire, you could have just knocked it out yourself and used the money to buy a nice dinner/bottle of wine.If you don't want to go the CL route, feel free to PM me.

FICO while nice does not pay you back if your flip goes turtle...

It might weight one location above another if it's already on your list of possibilities for other reasons, but it wouldn't be a determining factor in any way for me.Really, you can do real estate anywhere in some shape or form, so you can move where you want and figure out how to make real estate work there, or move where you want and figure out how to make real estate work for you "long distance".  

Nice to see more locals on here. 

Another nice thing is that the management fees are also covered. 

It’s a really nice setup, and well ran.

I believe I was able to "win" the bidding war for a few reasons:- I had pre-approval of funds ready to go- I pulled the trigger ASAP when I realized it was a deal worth pursuing- I submitted an offer with an Escalation Clause- I submitted my offer with a nice personal touch that was tailored towards the sellerBest of luck!

It'd be nice if there were things I could do to get that credit score ready so that I am offered the best interest rates, I was wondering if that was something I could do to help boost it up.

I'll be owner occupying the finished garden unit and currently looking for tenants to occupy the nice and spacious 1st and 2nd floor units.

@Surya Kumar $15,000 for vinyl flooring in a $105K house is going to be some really nice flooring.