Log every activity to the exact minute for the next two weeks.

My investors usually close within a month but recently had someone doing a short sale so the process took two months just for them to agree on the sale amount with the bank.

@Mason VitalisYou may be referring to the 2-out-of-five-year rule which states that you must have owned and lived in your home for a minimum of two out of the last five years before the sale to qualify to exclude up to $250,000 of that gain for individuals and up to $500,000 if you file a joint return. 

I co-host two REI networking groups (one is the Minnesota chapter of InvestHER) and would be happy to send you the details if you want to see what is working for people here!

I’ve got one big house (w/4 “doors” haha) in the Napa Valley and two SRF’s (one w/attached studio) in Lodi (near Stockton).  

Or if you can get a 0% interest credit card to purchase materials - I've had to do that in the past and put 70k on two credit cards :-/ Then when the bank finally came through I paid off the CCs. 

Seller did not feel that a second position mortgage adequately protected her.My proposal is that we have two (2) transactions.The first transaction will be for an undivided 7/10 interest in the property and the sale price will be $157,500.The second transaction will be a sale on contract of the remaining undivided 3/10 interest in the property for the remaining $67,500.

Daniel,You are asking a couple of good questions on here, but I think you need to add a couple of more and take two additional steps before purchasing.First, the more data you start trying to look at, especially data that is not necessarily relevant, rather than finding clarity, you find confusion. 

I type “questions1” in my iPhone and it replace it with all of the questions I want to ask.Setting up showings:Do as many as you can in a one or two hour block.

Did right around 138k in two houses on 218 nights on two side by side houses combined.Our thought process is we would rather have a high ADR and lower occupancy than be 90% with higher use and damages.