Marketing execs all over the country have been tripping over themselves for years to find the answer.

On one of our trips to see houses, things started to look better for us.

You will most likely need to take a couple of trips (write offs).

Keeping the wonky mechanic theme:If the 4cyl, air-cooled engine in your 1975 VW camper needed a new top-end (all four cylinders), but you decided to replace (rehab) only two cylinders ... you won't be leaving the driveway for that trip to Burning Man.When I look at a partially renovated property, I go in with the position that if the vendor was too underfunded to complete the project, than it is more than possible that s/her also took shortcuts in the work which has been completed.  

@Todd Heintz If your going to be an out of state investor then I'd suggest taking a few trips down to the market first and aligning yourself with a team who shares in your core values.  

My friend got a nice little 3BR/1BA home for $0 down & 5 years of cheap payments, and I'll get a nice cash flow to help pay for my 6 month RV trip I'm taking with my family from Florida to Alaska and 20+ National parks!

I don't see any offer to the buyer for warrants, a dividend stream, or access to part of the land to subdivide, or really anything else that would seem to be a benefit to the buyer.But I would think that the buyer would be opening themselves up for what is likely drama on the other side, or worse, opening you up to lawsuits if someone trips and falls, risk that the seller puts a lean on the property, risk that the seller doesn't take care of the property, or forces you to pay for repairs and maintenance..Now maybe your point is go in and figure out what the seller is trying to accomplish and offer something that gets you a return on investment

I had an exact bid and had to do minimal work, just QC on the project and two trips to Home Depot.

They can be canceled by the tenant at any point as well.Money Orders/Cashiers Check: These are considered safer than personal checks because you need to use verified funds to purchase them, however, although it's harder they can still be canceled before you deposit them and they are a burden for the tenant to get and for you to electronically deposit through most bank apps, which means you have to take a trip to the bank.

I'd read about assisted living before but until I met him never thought it was possible I could get into the field.So fast forward some more and a little more background, I'm still working on correcting my attitude, and as luck would have it my wife has been working in the assisted living/skilled nursing/group home setting as a front line grunt level employee ever since I'd met her in 2012 (grunt is said with the utmost respect - she worked hard) so I started to bounce things off of her.Keep in touch with fellow re investor - agreement is reached that I can travel out of state and shadow his assisted living ceo for a week...did so March 2017 and learned a ton.More depressing things happen at my job April 2017 so upset with w2 job and all the negativity in the industry I was in.... one night I'm carousing re for sale listings, business listings etc and find this business newly listed for sale on an obscure bus website.