I also don't think it is something you can "teach" a contractor if it's not their nature. 

However, I understand I have a natural bias toward Phoenix because it’s home.

If I ever were to partner it would be with someone I have a natural relationship with where we get along and see eye to eye. 

I simply waited for the deal to hit the market and the price to naturally drop since it was very evidently overpriced.Once I came back to the deal, I negotiated a new power panel to be installed, to upgrade to 200 amp service, and then I offered to take the property, as-is, given the price was dropped down to $150k from $160k, so I had a little more room for error on learning with this property.

I waited for the deal to hit the market and the price to naturally drop since it was very evidently overpriced.Once I came back to the deal, I negotiated a new power panel to be installed, to upgrade to 200 amp service, and then I offered to take the property, as-is, given the price was dropped down to $150k from $160k, so I had a little more room for error on learning with this property.

So in a nutshell, I can live without STR ability on a Galveston loft property provided that: (1) 30 day leases are permitted (I always rent my properties out fully furnished - so they are good for the corporate housing by owner type tenants); and (2) there is enough demand to sustain rentals of this nature approximately 9 months out of the year or more. 

It's very tough to cashflow in Hawaii with the nature of the market out there.

He told me that Fannie Mae has decided to reduce their portfolio of investment properties to 7%, due to the riskier nature of these transactions and the current market.

They declined to comment for this story.The Rocky Mountain Institute, a Boulder-based international energy-efficiency policy group, has issued studies finding building electrification in Denver will make new construction cheaper by eliminating needed natural gas infrastructure.But low-cost natural gas in Colorado makes it possible that some all-electric buildings could cost more to operate than natural gas-using buildings, RMI noted.

What happens when the electric company increases the cost of electricity by 30% because they were forced to switch from burning natural gas to burning  squirrel dung because it is more environmentally friendly?