I actually just finished Chad Carson's book about retiring early with real estate... and the one story in it where the investors lost everything in 2008 was with note investing, not real estate. 

Some have actually even done worse damage to the item they were sent to fix. 

There are a lot more details to this story, but in the end, although it may have actually needed around $40k in repairs, I still felt comfortable purchasing at $187k.

This proves that the threads exist but they're not being found by the actual BP search function.This issue has happened to me countless times and it's time for me to voice my frustration. 

We've had a ton of interest but only actually received 2 applications (we listed it last week). 

Can work actually be completed in 2 months with the right contractor?

I quoted Cardinal Kitchens and then Cardinal Kitchens via Lowe's and the price through Lowe's was actually a little lower.

I was told the capital gain tax doesn't avoid us from actually adding the profit back to our income as other income, so in effect you are taxed twice 1. capital gain 2. profit from sale added to our regualr income..what am i missing here?

. ;) So it's actually a great idea to keep an eye on this metric as its often used as a benchmark for the health of the SFH market. 

The reality of todays market is that it is over inflated.