The last one I got that is A/C and heat is a powerful unit that provides heating or cooling for an open 500 square foot area and it was $400 at Lowe's.Another heating option I put in my own home that I also think would look snazzy and upscale in a rental, but at a low cost, is those electric fireplaces. 

LOL  no matter were these folks come from they all do the same thing.. no matter who trains them a guru or bp they all do the same thing.. not rocket science here with this wholesaling homes...

If they are modern (ish) double glazed, then you might be able to stretch that 2t unit and just shove another duct in.Also, find out if your power company offer any incentives for upgrading a central a/c system.

Here are examples of just a few:Entrepreneur: The Power Brothers / Power Properties (Dallas, Texas)While investing in North Dallas in 2009 and 2010, I began hearing of what the Power Brothers where doing in the Historic District.

I am new to real estate investing and would like to meet with more experienced and like minded people in order to learn and build a more powerful network. 

Hopefully those much smarter than me can help Rick H. but since probate was never opened, no powers were given to anyone, therefor sole heir or not, she doesn't have any signing authority to sign anything enforceable to "tie up" or get the property in contract.

As things stand here in NB for the moment, the best I can hope for from our energy efficiency and net-zero power efforts is reverse metering to the point of zeroing out my bill with the electrical utility.  

You can have the sewer lines and furnace inspected without power.

I'm not an experienced REI yet but I would like to offer advice on the power of positive thinking.Everything happens for a reason.Reading your post...the biggest thing that jumped out at me "my private money (dad)" is an AMAZING thing in my opinion.

the 2nd association it resonates is the highly consumption-driven society we live in. in my area (coastal, urban southern california) i'm surrounded by 2 distinct lifestyles. there's the majority: seems like 95% of the local population who are renters, driving luxury cars, sporting fancy clothes, jewelry, hairdos, etc but obviously living paycheck to paycheck as exemplified by hardly a day somebody or the other is spotted  getting their car repo'ed by a camera crew. the rarer are the landlords, who in this area seem to be of mostly asian demographics (chinese, koreans, japanese) who live obviously very frugally: old 80s model sedan, oldfashion business cloths, always eating simple meal from home, seemingly never splurging $$$ other than into expanding their portfolio), my observance is relatively very few landlords in the area own relatively huge portfolios, each.with the advent of these infomercials and the internet (ie, BP) more and more people want to get a 'piece of the REI pie' and more power to them. there does seem to be this dream of rags to riches and while its ok to dream, do most people actually expect their life to turn around like that, as portrayed in most of the infomercials or even in the everyday setting where the masses living paycheck to paycheck, are spending their last expendable dollars not on depositing into savings acount, but blowing $20 on scratchies etc. in summary, is my observation reminds me of my days when i worked on wall st and the 'ra trace' was so obvious with dime a dozen stock brokers makin 6fig salaries at some point but blowing it on recreational drugs apparently costing thousands of dollars a pop to the point the next week they are broke again and that $ wasnt invested but wasted.