I don't know for certain, but I imagine that refinishing and sealing should do the trick...this is good question for a knowledgeable hardwood contractor...

For example, I acquired a property in Phoenix to fund my purchase of a vacation home up north to escape the heat.I'll buy another property to afford my tricked-out WRX STI in the future, and a third one so I can take a European vacation every year with my family.I agree with your decision, but consider rewarding yourself again once you have more comfortable cash flow and there are more predictable signs of the direction of the economy and REI legeslature. 

Here is my boilerplate list of the steps you should take to learn how to estimate rehab costs:#1 Read the Book on Estimating Rehab CostsExpert house flipper J Scott discusses the fundamentals of budgeting and pricing rehab costs and reveals the steps, tips, and tricks he uses to accurately estimate costs for 25 common trade categories and hundreds of repairs.

So I'm fishing for tips and tricks I guess in that area. 

A great trick I learned for curbing credit card use is to put one in a ziplock bag, fill it with water, and freeze it.

Also put the city names in the Title tags and Alt tagsThe two easiest to work from in my opinion are Godaddy.com's WebSite Tonight for $48 per year and Yahoo's site builder as well.Putting the site up is not the trick it is getting traffic and it takes a lot of work and reading about how to get traffic.

The trick is, I too am busy with running jobs that has in-house crews, so I'll simply act as your typical GC or commercial GC / paperwork contractor on this to divide my time, I could fill out the gaps but I couldn't use majority of my workforce because i have deadlines also, i could fill in a tradesman or two when there's a hiccup, say when a plumber or electrician doesn't show or keeps pushing the schedule out, but that's about it.

I should say, he was trying to show off his capabilities and wealth that he has gathered in all these years.What he suggested were few real estate tricks that every scammer knows.

The trick is guessing correctly on what is a good value and when we’ve hit the bottom.

Are there any tricks to that?