I would shave off a few dollars and say Your House is SOLD for X today!

Instead of ripping all the crooked pieces of wall and wood and trimmings out, I should leave them.The floors are just planks which I thought was hideous... but leaving them in would actually add "value" no?

We were called in to pick up the pieces, which consisted of kicking all the current tenants out, doing a complete (expensive) rehab, and re-leasing the units.

That's why we offer so many options, and recommend a different mail piece each time.

I've been learning bits and pieces of real estate investing over the last 3 years, but have only started really focusing for the last year.  

1.Yes2.Yes3.Yes4.YesRemember your buying a Business not just a piece of real estate.

Any anecdotal or factual details about demographics and such would help guide the online research that I've started to piece together. 

Thanks @Douglas Skipworth for posting the articleIt was a great opportunity to be part of the Start Small Win Big Challenge and very excited for winning the competition.Also I am grateful for being part of Bigger Pockets that thru the forums that I have read and people that have answered my posts had made me a better investorI had the opportunity to meet Darren Hardy this week  and I would like to share one piece of advice that he gave me, that I thing it can benefit any investor that wants to grow their business and continue to grow over timeThe questions was  what is the best advise for a start up to succeed?

That is a good piece of info to know.

There is rusty water filling this hole and it is very slowly leaking over the edge of the hole,  across the lid to the nearest edge and running down the back of the water heater in a tiny stream about the width of a piece of string.