I have a mixture of real estate and venture capital companies that need funds so I was told to combine them into an LLC in order to be able to fund them all more easily can at a cheaper rate.

It is so much easier to do deals out here because it is very rare for a lawyer to be involved, everything is handled by the title company and contracts are pretty standardized.

If that is the case, then simply installing new aluminum combination storm windows is probably the best answer.

I use a combination of Outlook for managing contacts and spreadsheets and databases that I've created myself.

Main Street (real estate) rarely account for and ignore the following:- The concept of leverage: Up to recently, you could control a hard asset (real estate) with no money down---can't be replicated on Wall Street...Even now, you can control a 100K hard asset for between 5-10K, even if you use stock options, you still can't leverage yourself with OPM the way you can with real estate

I do a combination.

Rarely does a PM exceed the rents projected.

I believe it is a combination of not only sub-prime and ARM mortgages, but also the high number of people who have gotten loans with interest rates at an all time low... in addition to the rapid depreciation in some areas and the difficulty some are experiencing in selling their homes.

You want to get a good handle on what's going on during your inspections.The steep stairs combined with the weird wiring make me wonder if the upper rooms were added with proper permits.

The agent generally will not know what is important to an investor and they rarely know they do not know.