If you don't have capital (IE you are trying to wholesale, wrap, subject-to, or seller-carry creative financing), you might be better off moving to the area where you want to invest, it would be extremely difficult to do that from overseas profitably.In my experience, I'd stay away from the low grade houses and focus more closely on Multifamily, particularly larger properties as the price per unit and price to rent ratios are closer to what excites you about the low end homes, but with less risk and greater economy of scale.

If they are carrying a bunch of debt on credit report or having a divorce bankruptcy could be in their future and it could get messy.You need to look at the profile like a potential lender and asses risk and ability to pay.

If it was in poor shape and leaking then ok.I have a rental where the bathroom tile was painted over white from black and gold and it looks great now, however this was not in the wet shower area where looks like yours is so I am not sure of the product you would use to paint over it and how well it would hold up to being pounded with water daily but I'd lookj into that first before ripping that out.

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The funny thing is, I'm NOT rude to people on the phone...but what else was I supposed to do when this man kept carrying on trying to get me to rent to his sister, ignoring everything I said.

To employ 4 loyal hard working associate who can help me carry out the mission of the company.

Almost like taking your car to a garage for a tune-up and getting you transmission flushed.Ooops, but, make sure that the drop service line is adequate to carry the higher load.

There are basically 3 ways to get licensed: - Correspondence with a book (what I did): fast but no networking - Online: medium speed and no networking - Live classes: slow speed but networking In my case I wanted to get licensed as fast as possible so I did it with the book, which I could just carry around with me and progress fast.

I think you mean 'carrying' costs... the costs incurred between acquisition and disposition (purchase and sale) or when the unit is available for rent (purchase and 'in service' date).

Being the executor doesn’t mean that you have to carry any further financial obligations it may be best to liquidate all assets get your credit where you want it and start investing from there.