The appraisal institute courses are usually high quality but also a pretty expensive.I am reading Marty Boardman's book about flipping houses and it is an excellent overview of the process.

Your first post asks for opinions as to the quality of your proposed ad; when opinions are given you "disagree".

I hired several persons/contractors to do the painting, landscaping, cleaning and maintainance, but I don't have their SSN or TIN, so I did not send them form 1099MISC, do I still can deduct all those costs from the rental incomes on my tax return this year?

They ran for 12 years & still worked fine when we sold it.Meanwhile we have been through a lot of high end stuff in our homes & the poor quality is frustrating.

Spokane seems to be a strong market, so you might face less vacancy and higher quality tenants, depending on the location.

Right now I currently work a full time job where I have a whole lot of flexibility but not quite ready for the leap into real estate full time, at the same time I have a side carpet cleaning business that I am using to build up some funds for my wholesailing business, I want to use my wholesailing business to give me some experience in real estate investing, would it be the smartest idea to have my part time carpet cleaning business while trying to start my wholesailing business.

.- Reponses via email or phone from the realtors at LS is not of top notch quality.

i have 17 years left on the loan so i had a lot of principal paydown each month. i run slightly into my pocket to pay the repairs/maintenance each month.the kicker was the new house we bought, our quality of life went thru the roof...less commute, triple the space, new home. and an exact house 5 doors down appaised $20k more than our purchase price 6 months later.

Here's what will happen: the bank will clean up the deed, then list it with a repo broker.

If the house in such a mess with junk in all rooms, then, it may have not been cleaned and dirty for a long time.