Paying down the mortgage gives me an immediate return by paying down interest, and in a down market I could mortgage the paid-for properties (which are worth about $600k today) to pull a few hundred thousand dollars out to start buying properties at a discount.

Even so, it cost a couple thousand and required daily watering for six weeks before we could back off, particularly with this summer's heat.I'm amazed that there haven't been landscaping companies that have come up with a plan that are tailored to investors with designs that are zero maintenance in year 5, say.  

Ultimately, the biggest thing I learned was to believe in yourself and your ideas.In closing, I just deposited a multi-thousand dollar check and I realized that I had never earned money outside of working for a company before.  

Verify all of this, but if these numbers are right, then it is a good deal:47,855 ARV33,498.5 (70% rule)2500 repairsYou could wholesale this for a few thousand so the flipper can have  decent profit.

I feel if I partnered with someone who is willing to fund the marketing (with hopes to benefit way above and beyond what they put in), my wholesale/rehab business would explode  because my postcard would be getting to thousands of more people than if I had to save up first to send them.

Yellow letters and postcards can cost a couple thousand for start up.

And many people think these devices are snake oil and that the only fix is a new leach field, which costs several thousand dollars.  

I'm only comfortable because I've title searched many thousands of properties and bought many hundreds at auction.  

We put in a nice propane unit with 45 thousand BTU for the lower level but the price of propane figures into that conversion. 

Local are best but they will be costly in the thousands.