I would eat that $1500 and have another contractor tommorow.

I guess there are quite a few of us Cali investors on this board, maybe the Admin can put a new subboard for us Cali people so we can somehow network our resources and idea on where to go from here.

I've bought other things there, but vehicles and RE are something that I'm not quite that brave about... :)Deborah

.:)Read everything you can on these forums (you'll find a quite a bit of information online for free).Join a local real estate club and network..ask tons of questions and get out there.As far as courses go - I personally like Ron Legrand's "Wholesale/Retail" course.

Hello,I've been the preconstruction business for quite a while.

Or is it an "alligator", eating taxes and insurance while not providing any return?

I'm sure that I'll learn quite a lot.

There are quite a few folks on this site who have their own websites and blogs and could use help like that.

Because as all cash has said, you can get quite a lot of benefit from selling your own personal residence.If you can't prove that this was your primary residence then I would suggest you read IRS Publication 523.

This has been quite a hot topic and I'm glad to have gotten so much feedback on which services work well and which ones don't.Looking over the options I think that MaxEmail looks like a good choice for me so I'll have to look at it more closely.