But if I can get my taxes down by at least half, I'll get a major ROI on my investment the first year, not counting all subsequent years, so I feel it's worth it.Hope that helps.MichaelBP Blog Contributor

Also a point he mentioned that I was getting to (or planned to) was that an Agent isn't going to do that unless your bring major value (unfortunately most don't).

Hello all today I went to the department of Buildings to try to get a list of possible code violations.

It needs some major rehab, so I'm looking for referrals for every kind of contractor.I need a good roofer, painter, plumber, HVAC, flooring person, electrician and general handyman.

Call your state department of resources about contamination suspected, they may inspect and test.

Automate your business as much as possible - use voice mail for seller leads/tenant issues, create good Statement of Works for your contractors, move majority of relationships with insurance agents, contractors, etc to email first communication.4.

THey take advantage.Do some research on properties around yours and maybe even yours and you will find many examples of properties losing the majority of their value from 1 transaction to the next.

There's also buying futures on the Case Shiller index for any of 20 major housing metro markets; it purely measures changes in repeat-sale home prices, a proxy for refurb projects.

It still caused major anxiety.

Securing those local bank relationships was a major victory.Based on that previous experience I tried something different this time around.