Start with what you conservatively believe that the property will sell for if it is brought to market standards (more on market standards later).

I had been burned by the tenant brought in by an agent.  

I have read a vast amount of other articles on the subject of flipping, starting a business, anything I can find online on the subject that falls inline with BP's and my standards.My wife and I brought funding with us and want to start small, first time home buyers, is what we have in mind. 

I understand how construction would go well with real estate, but I was never brought up on fixing things except computers.

Numerous other industry professionals.....what is actually being brought into scope to determine these numbers.Thank you for contributing.

This has less to do with effectiveness of remote work in general, and more with outdated practices for hiring and motivating the right employees who will be successful in that kind environment.Also, a new generation or two of workers that are brought up in an environment where tele-commuting is a real and viable option, will approach it differently than someone who was office-bound for the first few decades of their career - suddenly getting the option to work from home makes if difficult to resist the urge to party til the music stops, as it were.Having lived both in a small town in France, as well as in Tokyo, Japan, I can attest to the fact that cities both large and small can be made extremely livable.

Would love to discuss effective strategies for investing in these areas.As to what brought me here, I was brought here by the "Thanksgiving Special" and free audio from the 2012 Summit (which has been superb).Thanks to all for your time/contributions and I look forward to engaging in the BP community.Cheers,Erik

The house itself is solid and has brought several good surprises, and we've gotten compliments from several investors (I've invited a few to check out the property during the work-in-progress).  

I used the Facebook seller lead program and it brought quite a few leads in, but they weren't very qualified.Ultimately, I cancelled the program and because of my development experience, I was able to reproduce the exact same service using my own code without paying for someone else for the service.This buys me the flexibility to tweak the funnel on a more granular level to refine the quality.For me, it was worth it but I ultimately stopped paying for it.

You may just get a closing agent to prepare the docs, and either get title insurance or the abstract brought to date and checked by your attorney.