You also need a property manager that you can trust on the ground to see the properties and give you a good ball park estimate on costs.

Sione was a giant and his crew was strong, they were Hawaiian, and could have done more with a ball peen hammer than I could with the jack hammer!

Luckily, every house throws you a curve ball so the path is rarely ever straight.  

Jay, to be very honest...I may seem to be such a goof ball here.

Ok so for everyone is getting the MLS deals, are they mostly brand-new listings, low-ball offers on older listings, or nothing special as far as what you offered and when?

The cost was in the ball park of $1100 in Upstate NY.

Hi everyone My name is Corvaughn Archie and I am new to the real estate investing business, I am writing this post to seek out any wisdom on how to get started in the industry and get the ball rolling in my favor.

If you are the seller, then your agent dropped the ball on this and should have provided better comps and information to the appraiser.

Even the successful baseball batters that are over 300 are missing the ball 70% of the time.

As far as what I would pay for it, my original low-ball of 200k is looking pretty high.