(The roof itself looks like it's in very good shape from the outside of the house).

If you have the 1950's wood framed slide up windows and a few are cracked or in bad shape, count on replacing all the windows in the home.

I looked over the upcoming training schedule and some of the classes offered (almost all are two hours) include: Your Castle Career Launch, New 2011 Contracts, New Agent Orientation and Power Tools, Denver Metro RE Trends,Ninja Weekly Agent Coaching Boot Camp, Career Mastery Instruction, Advanced e-Contracts, How to Buy a 40K Condo That Cash Flows, How to Capture Investor Business and Advanced 1031 Topics, Public Trustee Class, The Contractor/Realtor Relationship, Networking With Confidence, Buyer Mastery Class, and Avoiding Inspection Pitfalls.

The garage roof is in terrible shape and needs to be replaced.

I will wait and see JUST how good this trend is.

Many newer real estate investors can benefit from a system that provides prompting and some structure to what they need to do next, what their options are, and recommendations on what might be the best choice for a given situation.We are looking for individuals who would like be active in shaping this new product.

Here are trends I look at in a market:- Unemployment - Job growth- Job diversification- Pay- Vacancy trends- Affordability trends (property values & rents)- Taxes- Landlord / tenant lawsJust to name a few...

If your Rental is in good shape, updated systems, well maintained, etc. the rates from some companies with only RC may be equivilant to others that will only do ACV.

If this is just touching your land but does not get up to the base flood elevation (BFE) of your house (or heat pump or basement windows), you may be in better shape to get documentation that will assist with this for the HELOC and any potential future sale.

I'm talking to my agent about a mailing to absentee landlords that will likely start in Sept.Summary - if you can get something in the north end of Poughkeepsie that is reasonably priced then you will be in really good cash-flow shape.