You can get cheap building materials usually from Habitat for Humanity ReStores (if you have any around).Then, your nights and weekends are going to spent sacrificing every moment getting those units fixed up to the point they are rentable.

Not sure about the code requirements yet, it may or not be an easy conversion but I plan to ask the building inspector when I go out there next weekend.

Close up your work ensuring to close off opening on the outside where bees were entering.Monitor next year from early spring until mid summer for any new activity.

Now it looks like anyone can take a photo to the lifeguard on Memorial Day weekend and gain entry to the pool all season as long as their picture is on file.

You have to decide what you want appreciation only,cash flow,or combo of both.That will dictate the area more and how active or passive you have to be to get the return you want.

[& is this escrow requirement,& 1% "activation fee" standard with HML's?

I actively invest in your market and hopefully we can do some business together in the near future (though I just bought a property so my cash is a bit thin now.).

College students usually move in the weekend before classes start and want to be as close to campus as possible.

All of this activity has made the good real estate deals extremely scarce in some markets.

We made sure our property manager has no problem with us coming down to inspect and fix what we can, so we just took a weekend, drove down, inspected and fixed a lot of minor problems that tenants just don't report, like the seam in the vinyl floor starting to separate, outside column & door frame needing sanding & paint before rot sets in, etc.