For example if majority is vinyl siding, ceramic tile, standard cabinets and laminate counter tops, VS wood siding or brick, marble or slate, custom cabinets, and granite counter tops.

When you factor in the 50% reserve, this is basically saying that you take 50% of the top of the gross rents and save this for maintenance, repairs, and other operating expenses.

These same banks serviced loans for trustees for years and have been paid on these homes 10-100x over, yet they are holding back inventory to make more cream on top of existing cream them made in the mid 2000s.The Too big to Fail should do just that.

J Scott - apparently Stephen Masek is a recognized expert in this area; see this link that appears near top of Google search results:http://www.nachi.org/forum/f21/asbestos-still-legal-dates-bans-12239/

On top of that while wholesaling I'll learn a lot about actually finding good deals on houses and figuring out what a property is worth and how much it would be worth after rehabs.Also it looks like I may be able to find some nice people to work with here.

With the yellow letter... put a blank white piece of paper on top of a yellow piece and hold it up to a window so you can see the lines.

Everything you earn on top of that will just be gravy whether it comes from flipping, wholesaling, etc.

On top of increasing taxes and property management costs, I did not even factor in capital reserves.Brian Nguyen, better to never invest then to invest and lose your shirt.

To replace the tub assembly and the washer hoses to the washing machine should have cost you about $150 tops including materials.

We also know it doesn't have to be a complete room.So as an extreme case, couldn't I have a filing cabinet, dedicate the 2 sqft exclusively to the rental business, because all I store in there (and on top) is rental related stuff.