Currently hold a corporate job which I plan on getting rid of within the next year thanks to my new career as a Real Estate Investor.Although I’ve just recently started my professional career as a Real Estate Investor, I’ve received extensive professional training from long time experts in the field, successfully closed a couple of deals of my own already; as well as helped Cash Buyers find great deals in my area meeting and exceeding their expectations.My immediate goal is to specialize in wholesaling deals, finding the best deals for my cash buyers per their personal criteria.My short to medium term goal is to buy and hold at least 5 or more rental properties consistently producing the highest cap rate possible with a double digit cash on cash return within the next 5 years.

The plan was to rehab the house to a 5-bedroom, 2-bath home with a main floor master suite (the existing layout did not have a master suite).What was supposed to be a 3-month rehab stretched into a 6 1/2-month rehab.

Martin It would be a really good itdea to have an experienced Architect perform an accessibility review of your property for compliance with accsssibility standards.  

Granted his target audience for this advice is largely those who have trouble managing their finances, but a lot of investors with strong financial management skills might be better off performing their own analysis to arrive at a decision to finance or not.

How extensive is this sort of repair?  

I have been spending time studying materials on BP to know more about real estate investing.I plan to invest  in Nigeria and Uae but there are no post ,blogs or articles on BP that i have read so far that talks extensively or give strategies based on this two markets .So the challenge I have is that most of the post on Bp talking about stragies of acquiring a property and rentals does not really tally with the Nigerian market.

It needs extensive work before it can be rented and will keep me busy this summer for sure!

We figured keep riff raff out but not so high a couple has to stretch finances to make it work.

Of course I will have a business agreement in place stating this.I want to lend the 10k on terms and would like to receive monthly payments until the complex is performing at a certain standard. 

A large loss adjustor is going to come meet us on Monday with one of their preferred contractors to assess the damages and give us an estimate.It seems like the next step, which is probably the most important part of this process is to find a good contractor that can give both us a fair estimate to make sure the insurance company isn’t going to try and lowball us and perform quality work to restore the house.