Knowing everyone is busy and not wanting to waste anyones time, how do YOU deal with securing access to the property so you don't have to ask the owner to stop by each time your contractors need in to do the walkthrough and write up a quote?

Stop giving them choices and tell them how it is going to be.

This was the last step I stopped at.These are the questions I have and hopefully they can be answered:1.

Stop commenting and wasting people's time on how you can provide people with information, but when you are asked, you do not respond.

Real estate is non-liquid, and to get your equity back you incur large expenses often and may need to access equity at a time when the market is down and steals a lot of it..Ah, but what about appreciation? 

No CapEx) Monthly profit: $70.46 (so basically nothing)Cash on Cash ROI: 0.79% (ouch)Cap rate: 8%As you can see, the numbers are grim...My options as I see them are as follows:1) HELOC to gain access to this equity.

I've been through Utica a bunch of times and always try to stop at this certain Polish deli down there.  

(I'm self-employed in the trades, not that I'll be doing all the work.)I joined this community thinking it would be a good place to network and bought a pro membership for the calculators and access to the marketplace.

Good luck and never stop learning man!

Not accurate.The industry would stop moving if all issues were 100% resolved before proceeding.