Mostly higher level these days.

I also think though that there is a major difference between repair and replace cost for getting it rent ready for buy and hold investor and cost for a flip investor selling to a home buyer.2 totally different levels of cost, repairs, and time needed to achieve the end result.

I have purchased a few properties over the last four years but now it is really hard to find local deals that are not bid up to really high price levels by excited investors.

Seems expensive but what do you pay for a college course or degree?

On another, more international level, he and I have a Kiva account and we have a regular monthly session where we decide to whom we will lend our $25.00 and talk about where they live versus where we are and in what ways their lives are different, or similar, to his.I think you can teach your children the concept and *real power* of money {to do good} without conveying the message that money for the sake of money, is the objective.

I have a pressure washer that will go down to car wash level pressure.

Is there a way to get a written statement for this (any CAR forms) instead of just relying on this at a verbal level.

While I was still in college I went in with my parents to buy a home.

Originally posted by Jeff Sielicky:...Checking alarms....First you have to make sure that you have a smoke alarm installed in each bedroom, and on each level (including basement and attic if attic is used for anything).

For properties in college towns, repurposing would be difficult.