You need to get in the habit of offering a product for a price and sticking to your guns.Imagine if an applicant walked into a car dealership to purchase a new Ford F-150 and they want to purchase the truck but they want the price to include gas for the next year.

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He spent about $25K on everything and it took him 4 months. He started in March 2019 and Opened in July. We were going ...

We have great diversification in more than 14 syndications, the ability to travel and we are truly passive investors.

I've gotten them to improve but I can't expect to change a lifetime of bad habits and lower standards.

This is part of our motivation to get into REI in order to regain some of our time while still making an income.We are familiar with many different areas of this country as we have both traveled in and spent time in multiple cities across the nation.

.- I love traveling and getting outdoors. - My interest in real estate is as a way to eventually be my own "boss" and rely less on a paycheck from "The Man".

@Erik PerottiMy projection is that the ibuyers will end up concentrating on houses needing little or moderate rehab, and pass on the more extensive renovations.The goal of the ibuyers is to disrupt the brokerage industry, not the fix n flip industry, although that could end up being a byproduct.Various platforms, disrupters, etc have tried to make real estate agency as obsolete as travel agents, so far with almost no success.The differences between consumer industries which have been successfully transferred to a platform basis, and residential real estate are profound.

But I'm going to guess that most of those workers travel with a camper. 

Concerning single family homes, would it be a better to try to find a habitable fixer-upper and work on it in my spare time to increase the value over time to resell or should I plan to pay off and eventually rent out? 

I always travel with young children as well and do not want to expose them to that.