In some places you can get a contractor's license, but here it requires a tuff test of code requirements, techniques and legal contracting aspects and requires experience to be shown.To compare prices, get a bid per square.

I've read over the 2% and 50% rule and they make sense, and obviously are techniques to "screen" or do top-level analysis to help quickly triage a deal.As I've crunched numbers on hypothetical deals I've always pulled out PITI (principal, interest, taxes and insurance) out of the monthly rent to assess what the cash flow might be.

This technique has a bad reputation because unscrupulous investors (aka con men) set the lease/option up for the tenant/buyer to fail with the intention of pocketing the option money and getting another sucker.

That kind of rating system would be infinitely more complex, and subject to an incredible amount of interpretation.

What are some of the most creative, home-staging techniques that you’ve seen this year?

I've been reading the forums for the last 3 months, this is such an incredible resource and I am looking forward to being a part of this community!

DOM/CDOM and property condition would give you a rough idea of the list price discount you might expect.Of course, I’m only focusing on MLS usage for this question, and not other marketing techniques to find deals.

I don't do the same type of acquisitions as he does with this strategy, but the technique is nonetheless applicable.

These lose monetary policies are simply causing market distortions by steering incredible amounts of capital to flow into these markets.

The only thing i have attended was a fortune builders seminar, but that is only bc i think Than is incredibly smart!