One recommendation: focus your energy on executing the strategy you want to pursue.

We went through this January during an extended rehab.The Sulfate-reducing bacteria can survive in both your HW system & water softener due to lack of use.

It was really nice modern appliances, energy efficient, built in surround sound and a cozy fireplace, pretty much everything had been redone.

I can look at this two ways - - 1) Having a dishwasher may open my tenant field and reduce vacancy time. 2) People that knowingly rent a property without a dishwasher are willing to do dishes, and therefore likely willing to do regular household maintenance?

Besides being in real estate, I am also an artist and love to hike in and around Sonoma County.My plan is to invest some energy into reading and contributing on this site, to pick up investing ideas.

I would even consider stopping payments to your 401K or at least reducing them to the amount that is matched (if any) until the debt is paid off.

Yes, it is possible, to a degree but to do so you need to take into other considerations as to the local market, property condition, credit issues, qualifications of the borrower and ability to reduce the UPB, the term involved and issues of predatory dealing which is an issue in commercial lending as well as residential.Big misconception of money types and dealers is that if my deal is a "commercial" transaction, I'm free to do whatever as commercial is viewed as being between sophisticated parties.

I today's market investor buyers are a large segment of the marketplace in many areas.By excluding investors as buyers, the HOAs are actually reducing the number of buyers in the pool, and reducing the selling prices.

The additional energy savings will be difficult to estimate compared to new vinyl windows which will be 10X more efficient that old single-pane windows.

Focus your energy on getting it re-rented.