Smart man.......always liked reading his articles.

He presented himself as a smart guy, and appears to have created a solid life after football

My parents are both very smart and hard workers, and always have been.

Like Nick said, there are too many people looking at the home as their next goldmine...not exactly a smart way to build rapport and establish yourself as a go-to guy for discounted properties.Jeff

If you want to be successful using someone's technique, it strikes me as not very smart to try to guess what you are supposed to do when you could simply buy the course - get the knowledge - and apply the technique.

I'm fairly smart(I thought) but I didn't understand a single thing in your recent post, and I read it THREE times.

The property value on each has appreciated by over $2 million and he feels pretty smart about his investments and has tried to convince me to buy something there.But every time I look at Singapore property prices, I am reminded of Tokyo in the late 1980s.

The smoke has formaldehyde, cyanide and arsenic in it plus 599 other chemicals.We have freedom in the US, even freedom to not be smart.

That being the case, you need to become an expert on analizing the costs yourself.Here is what I would suggest: Spend many hours at Home Depot and/or Lowes to familiarize yourself with costs on typical rehab items such as flooring (carpet, tile, travertine, etc), toilets, bathroom vanities, sliding mirror doors, interior doors, baseboards, door casings, light fixtures (celing fans, etc) paint costs + paint supplies (tarps, brishes, rollers, etc), windows, sliding glass doors, kitchen cabinets and countertops, sod, trees, plants, bushes, ground cover, etc.

I asked for some $$ off for inspection and passed the savings on to Kyle.Kyle W is a smart dude, has multiple money sources, knows rehab very well, and has a few deals under his belt already and I KNOW he will be a great success (hell, already is).