There was a 100,000sf 3 building office complex foreclosure for sale for like $5m in my town in a really decent spot next to the grocery store.

The goal is to use the equity to renovate the store front since FHA funds can’t be used for this aspect of the deal.

I framed in an additional shower, replaced 4000 square feet of flooring with LVP to hold up to rigors of STR, removed 50 gallon electric water heater and replaced with a 75 gallon LP unit, completely renovated both sets of stairs, added additional railings to bring up to code, new trim throughout the house, added automation with thermostats and locks, and also furnished it via secondhand stores with some new items. 

(unless I have more surprises in store later this year and eats up my cashflow further).Hope people are taking notes from my real world lessons with Dollar to Dollar accountability!!!

Allows online payments from tenants, allows your rental listings to be published to various rental sites, tenants can submit maintenance requests, it will store your listings (so it keeps your photos etc...), and it has the option for background checks built in that the tenants pay for and it sends you a copy.

We found boxes of stored china, a fairly nice old set, in the crawlspace under one of our homes.

If you can find duplex that you can buy with fha to house hack or single family with in law store to rent out that’s what I would do.

You could order the materials and have the contractor pick them up from the store.

Get a wreath for the door from the dollar store.

It is sad to see people in their sixties and seventies stand behind a cash register in a grocery store or Walmart you just know they hoped to never end up there; yet there they are and actually I find them inspiring!