If I am able to buy more that one property then that will kick off a new business venture for me.

So we took the advise and began educating cramming getting guidance and direction from other REI's on the venture with a burning desire to succeed for our children's future.So we took the knowledge and began applying it in the real world calling and looking at several potential properties and spending hours after work into the late hours sorting pictures and data for each property and researched rehab cost and run the numbers of the ARV no higher then 65% THEN THE ROAD BLOCK POF POF BEFORE WE COULD EVEN MAKE AN OFFER NEED POFAND FINDING AN HML OR PML makes us feel like we are dealing with a NATIONAL BANK.

Another investor, one you haven't worked with personally but you've heard good things about, comes to you offering a joint venture where all profits will be split 70/30.

I have some problems with entitlement programs, the takeover of commercial ventures, and where this could go as it gets under steam.It is hard to "give him a chance" to make a difference when you see such mistakes being made.Aside from that, lets stop the personal attacks here.

There are some DIY kits floating around the internet for a couple of hundred.

So, let's use Option Contract, Assignable Option Contract, Sandwich Lease or Sub-Letting or Assignable Lease and search for those here on BP.Being in the Real Estate business means, as with any other business venture, that you have a certain amount of inventory, be that widgets to sell or things you consume to do business.

Nick, I would venture to guess someone else track record will probably not help you much.

The numbers as stated were decent (neither great nor bad) but I decided that I would pass on it because I do not operate in that area and it would need to be a killer deal for me to venture outside the Phoenix area.

I'm also looking into installing hardwood as a DIY project.

And a lot of it was from flipping ventures.