Under the Internal Revenue Code, repairs, renovations, and general maintenance of your personal residence are nondeductible personal expenditures""For work on a personal piece of real estate to have any tax value, it must add to the property's value or prolong its life.

Saw this article today, and it's a great sign of a thriving city; Minneapolis getting the fastest Internet speed in the world: http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2014/12/23/us-intern...

Internal restraints may prevent a treatment like you would do.

Oh and after I obtain my License & whatnot, Soon I'll be seeking an Intern Position so that I can gain that hands-on/ one on one experience!

As an investor who was invited to participate in an international hospitality Project I can say without question it has been an eye opening experience. 

With a certain amount of internal control, (the banks and property management companies), market fluctuations were not as likely to occur and the housing market would maintain a steady increase for the investors and of course the banks.

I know of some successful wholesalers who thought outside of the box and exclusively worked with international buyers even with MLS listed properties.

@Ashley Mullin I believe they have internal team who does repairs since they do major rehabs and sell properties to investors.

Transportation is a major source of jobs here, FedEx, Trucking, Railroad, River Transportation are some of the major players as well as AutoZone and International Paper world HQ located here. 

Every previous owner and their wives had died in the house and the last one had been an internationally dealing child pornographer.