The longer term nature of real estate and IRA investments enable investors to stay calm in the face of temporary setbacks / challenges and allow ample time to execute a turnaround or investment strategy.

One strategy I see in a lot of college towns is to convert a dinning room into a bedroom.  

5.She is trying to get $50,000 total to try to fix up the reno project plus pay for the expensive repairs on the other properties.6.She would also like to refinance the other properties which may be under commercial loans but deeds are in trust.One is over 12% and others I believe are over 8%.7.Her personal property has a mortgage for $130,000 and is showing about that value on auditors website + corelogic/Zillow.However, they completed gutted and rehabbed their house many moons ago and turned it from a 3 bedroom 2 bathroom church house into 5/6 bedroom 4.5 bath house.I believe theres plenty of equity to be found here but she’s afraid if she gets an appraisal for HELOC either she will waste money and it will come out to what the internet says or the county will reappraise the house and raise her taxes significantly which she can’t afford right now.8.She has a promissory note from a lawyer my stepdad lent $50,000 to some time ago.The note was due for $83,000 balloon in 2011 but he has only paid $5,000 on it.I don’t know the full details of this but she is supposed to send me a copy.Thanks for any help...this is pretty complicated, especially since I don't have the paperword to really lay down the exact details. 

Please lend me your thoughts on this 14 Unit I am working on.They are all 1 bedroom units.

This far I have done 1 flip and hold many rentals.Scope of work for a single family in PA2nd Floor Bathroom New tub and flooring and possibly drain and faucet replacement New vanity and fixtures Bedrooms and hall way Windows?

Renovations would add a bedroom in house 1, and build out the suite in house 2 (+1 bed + 1 kitchen)3.

I did a search for 3 beds across 4 cities in the area and was really confused when only one city had 3 bedroom properties and bigger.

@manny  its a three bedroom. with around 1500 SF. 

I plan on purchasing a 3 to 4 bedroom single family that I can live in, fix up, and sell after a year or two.  

We renovated the house from 900sqft to about 1550sqft with 3 bedrooms and 2.5 baths.