Agreed, Hammond can be a pain in the royal behind.

I am calling all niche strategists to understand your day-to-day activities, business structures and pain points that you experience in your profession.I am simply here to talk and hopefully wind up helping some folks by creating a product that will ease the pain mentioned above.Don't hesitate to jump in with ideas!

Sean, figuring out repair costs and comps are what will keep people coming back to buy from you. if your numbers are way off, your repeat buyers will disappear quickly.

I look to an acquaintance who lives in Germany, and it's crazy how much easy money we have flowing into our market because of these laws that have been passed over the years.Is anyone else a little freaked out about what might happen if that legal safety net begins to disappear, or hits the edge of its bubble?

The good new is that I have experience as a lender doing conventional commercial construction deals and I am painfully aware of making sure the the GC is paid for work completed.  

One of the reasons CHicago is so backed up is that so many people pull permits.Is it expensive and a pain in the butt, yes.

Overall though, while GRT is a pain,  we have found NM is good place to do business in the rental market. 

Those fears all disappeared when I sold my first fixed-up investment property for a bigger profit than two years’ worth of tele­phone company paychecks put together!

Including utilities in the rent could be a pain down the road. 

That period between increased valuations and being able to increase rents is painful.