I have been educating myself with blogs, podcasts, and any reading material that I could find.

It's inexact but can make a material difference.

I would like to check it out.I have a 4 acre property in Rohnert Park CA I have owned for going on 25 years.. it just got brought into the city as a mixed use resi project and I am trying to figure out what to do with it..CA is super expensive as you know.. but maybe something like this could work.problem is not with developers and affordable housing.. it rest squarely on regulators and city officials and environmentalist. building materials have risen a little but not much.. labor is up... whats up is development standards that the cities want and all the fee's that cities want that is not directly related to housing..

@Jason Hirko  there have been many threads on this companythey are Utah based so they are half lender half back room guru education companyI suspect they make the majority of their dough on the 3k turn downs.they also then charge appraisal and a submission fee of 600 to 800 per deal and from what others have posted the values would not mess they were out 4 to 5k .. and of course they are going to these folks because they advertise NO money down 100% financing.. so the borrower is out 4 to 5k is now out of money and out of business.Too me is smacks of pump and dump due diligence .. but then they say for the 3k they give them their how to get rich in real estate education materials that are worth at least 3k... :)) 5 points 15% is what I have heard..  

Need something simple to use to track everything especially all my receipts for all the materials and work I am having done.

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They can use the handyman for 2 hours, and they must have materials on site.

Use various sources to generate the leads but also be thinking about how to capture and retain them once you have them via e-mail drip campaigns, mail outs, and newsletters.live long and prosper!

I think others would find the material to be quite useful - not cheap, as far as I remember, though.