He would reject people that he didn't feel have the aptitude or traits he was looking for, he cared about his "brand" and he knew it wasn't for everyone.

I'm not an expert, but clearly wet leaves that fall on a freshly poured patio are far more staining than dry ones that fall on one that has had a few days to cure.He said that he would try to get the stains out, and apparently that's the whole answer.

You can better use a concrete product, these are available in the market in different brands.

Unfortunately the fundamentals are in place because of an outlook of food shortages combined with too much freshly printed money circulating around the world chasing the shortages.

Then LLCs came about and that offered a new and fresh option for businesses.

Potentially the best solution is to scrap the structure from the land and start fresh with something that makes more sense on the lot.Even if this is not the cheapest solution it does help to put some bounds on what the market will pay for the present property.

In the end, we tore the house down and built a brand new one right behind it that is worth 410k and we did it ourselves (we did hire people to help).

i am NOT exspecting the tucson market to shoot up again. i only exspect it to stabilize (i.e. reasonable days on market with a reasonable asking cost= sale when we need it to in the next 2ish years) i've been looking in the east, central and some south and have looked at well over 60 homes in the last week. mostly with kids in tow. so far the 3-4 homes that we've seriously considered have been a lennar home (brand new on valencia/alvernon), 2 on swan/22nd area and one in the irvington/kold area. we submitted an offer yesterday on a valentine st. prop but it was counteroffered and the offer we put in was our max. price so that one wasn't doable. we are submitting another offer tomorrow on a 27th st. home thats fairly nice and hopeing to get it for $146k w/all fees paid, no money down. unfortuneatly the military takes care of us but its a really hard challenge to get ahead on one income and no way to (realisticly) earn extra income. which is why everyone should support military discounts!!

(not that anyone else didn't but as you said every market is different). of course being new to investing doesn't give me the edge and homes here of course are much higher than i am used to seeing...but i come from southern missouri where the houses are CHEAP and the brand new house we are buying at a "discount" of $150k would only be worth $100k max in MO so its hard for me to compare. the guy in "UGly houses": hes SELLING the house without doing anything with it?

My name is my own personal BRAND.