Home Depot markets a very economical yet energy efficient line called American Craftsman (made by Andersen).All vinyl, double pane, tilt in for cleaning.

I want to pay cash for a steal, fix it, and flip it as quickly and efficiently as possible.

Sometimes the thread titles are misleading.It just seems to take a long time for threads to load for me and this would make browsing this board faster/efficient for me.

You can spend a lot of time and energy trying to do something.

The tenants waste your time, money, energy, and have NO prode of homeownership.

I gave a talk last Saturday at http://www.meetup.com/NEWPORTBEACHINVEST/events/23...and over 25 people were there, great energy and was really fun to share with the RECEPTIVE GROUP!

All the same problems exist, except you are putting money into the property.It seems like if you live according to the 50% rule, you believe that a property is a cash flow machine - and that the market is efficient enough that you won't earn a real return through appreciation, rising rents, inflation reducing the real interest your paying - so if you don't have a positive income flow, don't do it.I don't believe the RE market is nearly that efficient... of course I'm not claiming I can beat the market - but I bet many of you people do.

Norman Podhoretz , the editor at large for Commentary magazine (I recommend that you take a look at this magazine even if only online) said it best “ Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence. â€Self esteem and self confidence are also at stake.

My target would be to make at least about $5K per month from rentals and at least $15K per fix-upper, doing about 4 of these each year.Do you think it is a reasonable goal for someone with very minimum RE experience ( but a lot of enthusiasm and energy, and of course some cash in hand) ?

Follow them.If you are able to proceed without legal representation you should first attend several court sessions to see how others do it.Even so, around here Magistrates run their little fiefdoms as they please -- athough you can certainly appeal a ruling should you have the time, energy, money and willingness to piss the Magistrate off.