I just started my own real estate company a few months ago. I work primarily with developers and builders providing them capital from our investors. One thing that concerns me is the governments potential push to ra...

Savers are being hit hard by the Fed's efforts to recapitalize the banks and boost the economy.

Alas my tale of success will have to wait and in the spirit of honesty and reality I present my tale of hubris and bungling.I'll start with the moral of the story which is do your due diligence.

i didn't remember the permits and such so getting at least a handyman/g.c. would be a good idea for the first few jobs. and i am sure i will be obsessiv and nervous enough that i will constatnly go to the job site and oversee anyways. i will talk to my realtor and feel her out. she is not in real estate as a full time job but more as a boost to afford what they currently have. she has helped a few of us buy homes in our playgroup and did take me to some homes that were fixers when we were looking even though we couldn't get them (va loan...must be liveable). she has the knowledge about the market and is a little more astute with fixing/building projects so as long as she understands what i want and need i know she'll be an assett. i think she'll be understanding of the low offers. i believe a comment was that "well it doesn't hurt to put in [this] offer" for a range listed house. there were quite a few short sale and reo propertys when i was looking so i'm sure there are still plenty. i think the majority of personally owned homes that are on the market here are already fixed up so i will have to go with reo/foreclosure homes. problem is finding one that has a small loan and the bank is selling for that price. but i guess thats the point!

At the end of the day I didn't end up sharing the profit margins with the company I was "consulting", but I did share some of the other things I learned from the competitor.The moral of this story: it's amazing how much information people will share with kids trying to learn.

Complete interior remodel in a great area helped to boost rents by $300 per month.

., TV commercials, radio ads, motivated seller websites, SEO, pay per click/adwords, facebook, Linkedin, Youtube, and other forms of online advertising and boosted/promoted social media postings.Bottom line is integrity and consistency.

Then the rehab should help boost the ARV to offset the 20-25% the bank will keep for themselves essentially. 

So far I have boosted curb appeal by power washing the exterior, painting the shutters, removing some old rotting fences and dead trees and bushes.

The moral of the story that dovetails off your rant is that as long as the local and state level government is putting in laws the more adapting and conforming to those new laws need to happen.