If you are doing the work yourself, go spend a day at Home Depot or Lowes looking over the material price.

As much as I hated spending my summers working on the houses the experience I gained was something you couldn't pay for.I graduated from Virginia Tech in May 2003 and lived at home for the summer while I started my full time career as an IT Consultant.

Our value proposition is twofold: first, it saves a lot of time and hassle by going to a single place to solve all these problems -- single sign in, simple pricing; second, by negotiating in bulk, we're able to get and pass on to customers a much lower price.It really depends on what's important to you and how you want to spend your time and money.Jeff

Although I don't mind spending some money to get good information, and I definitely intend on frequenting this site and reading as much as I can, I would love some recommendations.

Plus I didnt want to spend the next 2 days answering questions vaguely when she will answer them properly.

My sweat equity and wise spending on materials/labor has led RE broker to expect it to sell for 30% profit after investment/broker/taxes, etc.

:welcome: Spend some time reading and asking questions on here and you'll figure out where your REI interests are.Glad to have you here.Good Luck,Jason

If you haven't, I'd spend some time getting out and looking closely at your target areas.

They are spending lots of money for possibly a once-in-a-lifetime vacation, and have high expectations.Vacancy of course will vary by market, but many areas are seasonal at best.

Better to know now than after you've started spending money.