It also looks very professional.Literally YouTube "creating a website with Word Press" and you'll find great step by step tutorials from start to finish.

Define strategies for how you could get the money (you can find lots of discussion on raising capital on BP) and estimated costs for various items.Look around your area for finished retail homes to see what styles and finishes are popular and what is selling in your area.

With your first property most of us learned a LOT, then quite a bit with the second, etc.I am glad I finished my first, got it rented and had that experience before I jumped to the second,,I knew somethings I had done with the first I wouldn't do with the second.I still learn, and that knowledge helps me make every purchase/rehab/renting better (hopefully anyway),,,,do what you think is best, but I know it would have been better for me to learn from the first before moving to the second

If you are interested in flipping you should also check out @Justin Silverio 's quarterly meetup that is this Wed at a finished rehab project he just finished up in Stoneham.  

Zillow for instance -- it's a good starting point but I viewed a property listed on their site that was missing the fully finished basement and a full bath.

i was thinking 175$ is more reasonable if you are going to have premium finishes (granite, subzero) etc. to justify the $650k+ retail tag. 

A bullet point "dummy" list from start to finish would be helpful.

Though I was itching to start utilizing the lessons learned from the book recently finished, the market prices at the time were very prohibitive. 

If you get so deep in a project you have little choice but to finish it unless there is some dummy you can flip it to.

I am sure my lender was not unhappy because he got a couple of months extra interest payments out of it, but we probably could have finished 2 months earlier and with a TON less stress.