I started with a turnkey company and after I was left high and dry, I learned the business myself and manage my properties from a distance with a team on the ground.

This means you spray and wait about 10 minutes for the texture to dry up a bit and run over the texture with a smoothing tool that turns the drops into a smooth and clean texture. 

Peel and stick the patch, spread spackle, dry, sand, and use a can of spray on texture.As long as you can get the paint to match, nobody will notice the patch.

One never knows; the larger margin deals could all dry up.

Institutional lenders tend to deal much more harshly with them.Depending upon the specific area of the country, non-owner-occupied house loans are virtually non-existent or difficult to get.Bankers seem to have a blind spot when it comes to the interests of the speculator in EXISTING houses.While it might be routine to make 100% construction loans to builders and developers (although these, too, are drying up rapidly), the thought that someone might want to make a 90% or 80% loan to purchase an investment turns otherwise jovial Mortgage Loan Officers into pinch-faced misers.They suddenly forget long standing banking relationships and outstanding credit histories, mumbling about money being tight and bank policy being restrictive at the present time.What then is the solution?

Tenant "Can you replace the dryer, its not drying"Me "Have you cleaned out the lint trap?"

It took a while to completely dry out though.

We've seen discussions on Capital Gains(CG) taxes - - but that's just the tip of the iceberg as they say.I elected to liquidate my holdings, withdrawing from RE, and to watch the paint dry.

My mom is retired, epileptic, and is very nervous about the money drying up.

No hibachis within 10 feet, 1 car only, guests park on street, no shoes on hardwoods, no grease down drains, no noise after ---, no guests more than x days, no pet sitting, no non operating cars, water the lawn, responsible for all unsubstantiated repair calls, no solvents, no cleaning your motorcycle in the living room, no candles, no drying your fish on the roof, no couches on the front lawn, no blocking furnace vents you dumb axx, no materials with x feet of furnace, no alterations of any kind, etc etc