Even though we had various handymen to help us with the work, we still did the physical labor ourselves for awhile, until the old bones were causing us to eat Tylenol like candy, then we turned over most of the labor and repairs to our handymen, but the more dangerous Detroit became, the more our handymen stopped working for us, because their vans were stolen and their toles taken, and even one of our men, lost his life.

Trouble is, doesn't the management fees usually eat a lot into your profits when you do this ?

And since the borrower has no skin in the game - who ends up eating up these losses - me, the private lender.Bottomline: there's too much risk.

Of course, you can't resell the property without compliance unless you find another green title agent who doesn't know about the POS ordinance. 

Podcast: https://www.biggerpockets.com/podcastWrbinars: https://www.biggerpockets.com/webinarsGlossary: https://www.biggerpockets.com/rei/glossary@David Greene and @Brandon Turner has some good ones.

They help eat away at the bigger goals until I have time to crush them :)Going to local REI groups and of course the BP forums is also a good investment in my small amounts of time to keep in touch and make connections that again will help in future when I find that lot of time at the end of the rainbow.Good luck!  

but i'll get into that in maybe a separate thread as dont want to derail urs)nevertheless, think gas, and think green.

Living, Eat in Kitchen and an off Dining Room that has been converted into a 3rd bedroom with closet and window.

That way it contains the dishwashing/sink area to counter height and the eating  area at bar height.

Either way, be consistent with it and after a long enough time to honestly evaluate your marketing effort, either continue it or stop it, ie...green light/red light.