It has been my experience with in my industry, and also going to different types of courses for different types of money making stratagies, that they all just give you a little taste the first time, to sell you the second, much more expensive course.

I'm starting with no money and average credit.

Now if I fix it up it's still cheaper than average comps by about $50 per square foot.

AS I am reading this, i'm relating it back to my industry.

•The average age of someone who searches for property on the internet - 38•The Median Age of a text messager - 38•86% of of users who have a cell phone have used text messagingA quote about the text messaging industry:"These numbers are not unlike what we saw in e-mail response during the mid-1990's as the Web emerged an advertising medium," said Will Hodgman, CEO, M:Metrics, who also founded AdRelevance, the global standard for advertising measurement on the Internet.

I've been averaging about $130 per month in advertising for the past 5 years for my rentals and get about 40 calls per day.

Assuming a long term hold and rent, and an "average" rental (not an executive or specialty property), you should take steps now to minimize headaches and expenses over the life of the property.

This aspect of the RE industry galls me to no end.

Sniper - I agree that if I were an average homeowner who had motivation but felt I had a pretty house,.

I used to be in that market so I occasionally read the news, though, and this article surprised me:http://timeshareconsumergroup.org/advocacy_industry_update.htmlThe points are a little skimpy, but the idea is that the ts industry has not experienced the same problems as the real estate industry and is actually experiencing growth in spite of the economy.