I was semi lucky that I have a lot of sand and just starting the winter planting season so I was able to hand broadcast winter grass seed right before a rain and have nice green yards quickly. 

If they are honest great, if not you will need to eat repairs.

Those can quickly eat up your profits.Otherwise, the house looks like a great subject for rehab.

Originally posted by Taylor Green: Do you think many rehabber's would agree to show the investor how he runs the operations of the property they are partnering on?

Combined with the fact that I like to eat, and food costs money, which doesn't grow on trees (although it is regularly printed in Washington, DC).

They don't scratch wood like cats.They don't pee on floors like cats/dogs.They don't color in crayon all over everything and break stuff like kids.They don't potentially eat neighbor's pets or bite like snakes could.They don't have potential flooding issues like 50 gallon aquariums.And, really, how many potential tenants even have lizards/reptiles?

Actually, that's not the worst they can say, but you can always hang up :) Just ask yourself this question, no matter how difficult they are or how badly you screw up, "what are they gonna do, eat you?"

My social group these days pretty much consists of Harley Owners Group people who are all succesful in what they do and don't need to network for more business or brag or talk shop or do anything but follow our official motto which is "Ride and Have Fun".And while that's our official motto, every year we raise thousands of dollars for worthy causes or individuals in need or we help deliver hundreds of Christmas presents to local kids and that doesn't even count showing up at nursing homes to play bingo or eat ice cream or roar kids around the parking lot at the Ronald McDonald house or, well, the list goes on.What a true blessing it is to be able to give back.So personally, when some cube-dweller figures I've got some kind of easy racket going, or some contractor I hired with a hand-shake rips me off with the final bill because he thinks I print money, or some unemployed carpenter I hired to help him out breaks into my storage shed and steals my stuff because he knows 'all landlords are wealthy', well, I just can't worry about what the people who don't matter to me think.

To get 220V, two adjacent breakers in the panel are replaced with the "tandem" breaker used for 220V; off of that new breaker, an electrician will have the 2 "hot" legs (usually colored black and red in the wiring), and the neutral (colored white) and ground (colored green or just bare copper) will be connected to the appropriate bus bars in the panel.

So I'm very happy with the results so far, although maybe I'll be eating my words at some point, who knows.