Dropping $1M+ to turnover units over 2 yrs to get a significant rent bump is certainly a tried and true strategy but at this stage of the cycle I believe this to be the riskiest of all strategies.

Also appears you had it staged.

It's only about an inch or so off, and when you stage the place you should be able to hide that pretty easily with a nice drying rack next to it.

It is an elementary task, even for lawyers without much real estate experience.

I Added code violation homes, late in the fine stages, I added people who haven't paid their water bills, I added tax delinquents, probates, absentee owners.

Basically, at what stage can you hand over the deal?

Of course, you may want to live in an exciting neighborhood with exciting neighbors who drive pricey cars and host wine samplings and brag about public elementary schools that will rocket their brats straight into Harvard in a capsule made of melted-down silver spoons.

I should have been more proactive and fired him sooner but my personal life was exploding at the same time: amidst this incredible nonsense my fiancé became paralyzed in 9/2017 due to stage 4 cancer and died in 2/2018.

Hi Eddie,You want to do all the shopping right in the beginning during the pre-approval stage. 

Check out the Meet up in Mesa on January 23rd, https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/521/topics/65...It has a good turn out of people in different stages of the investing.