I hope everything works to your avail and that perticular property turns out to be a small gold mine.

If a place is run down or has just had a secondary story added the index will only show the price impact.

Its the little yellow ad saying "Manage Properties with Quickbooks" below the top forum links.

Because prospective tenants are asking how many square feet the apartment is when they call in response to our ads or off the sign.

(I'm so sick of painting....)Exterior: Added shutters and headers on all doors/windowsNew cedar fence (surrounds property - put cute white picket with arbors in front!)

This is going to sound a little odd, but when I started, I ran an ad in a local paper asking if investors would be willing to help me out.

High vacancy, high commissions, high maintenance and repair to keep in "Gold Star" condition (or whatever it's called at a particular area) and you're always paying top dollar for labor and material to get that stuff done.

I was thinking of offering a "likeness only" ad in the MLS (via my realtor), but am not sure about the process.

Like I said somewhere else on the forums, you can run ads for buyers before you actually have a prop. under contract.Just say "Handyman Special!

If they make every payment on time for a year or two, your investor friend can hold the note for a nice investment over time.I do think that giving them 80% of the payments towards equity is too much, he should consider much less.Tenants should be easy to find via newspaper ads with a prerecorded message to screen out interested people.