Interviewed three contractors to work on my flip.Meet with my finance guy and reviewed the company budgets Call one of my birddogs and told him I got a hot 1,000 bucks waiting for him once I close on a deal from him.  

Maryland is Hot if you have the time and the Money Guy with you.

And those do help the newbies from getting in hot water but they are very specific types of investments and there is generally a trade-off on appreciation/maintenance costs/and general PIA factor as you go up.

The rental market is so hot in adams county and the rest of the metro area that it makes no sense to me to take on that risk.

Student housing is hot and credit tenant financing is doing very well.

Down in the basement I go, armed with bee randy new fuses, I pull the mains, move the cigar fuses a little to break any corrosion, screw in the bee randy new fuses, and voila, problem solved.What kills me is that the old fuses look and test fine.This has happened damn near every time.Had to do it again today.Cue Rod Serling and the Twilight Zone music...

Wash window sills and curtain rods.

Most of the areas that these companies work you would not consider high end markets or hot markets like Austin, Vegas or Phoenix but predominately rental markets like St.

Not completely by a long shot, especially in a hot market.Im not saying sell things way above your market, but if you should know if an appraiser uses crappy comps and be able to call them out on it.

I also feel like I am not able to compete for any hot deals because I can only go down there once a month.Considering the travel costs for scouting properties and the fact that I most likely have to hire a property manager for my rental property am I approaching this the wrong way?