Good questions.First of all, most people like doing blind pools if they can get investors to invest that way.

Our Fitness Center with two pools is completed.

We felt they would be good and be settled rather than having a bunch of wild pot parties and pool parties.

I'm trying to build up my contractor pool.

The common areas are very attractive (swimming pool, BBQ, playground).I'm hoping I can get direction on a few things.First, if any BP members would like to offer sample rental agreements for rooms, that would be much appreciated.Second, is anyone familiar with the rental market in Bakersfield?

Two reasons for this - your rehab costs will be higher on an historic property because of age and stringent rehab rules, and on the sell side you have a smaller pool of prospective buyers.

Suddenly that fancy mini movie theater on site and 10 pools, etc, doesn't look that inviting.I can speak from experience, because when I lived in AZ, I had one apartment, that, while I loved it (initially), the prices continued to go up, up and up to where I was paying $900+ per month for a one bed/one bath.

I was under the impression that lenders were now required to choose appraisers at random, from a pool of appraisers, and that they could not use the same appraiser for all their work.

One of our clients bought a park that was empty of homes, had a swimming pool filled with dirt, and a trashed club house for a bargain that some other organization had bought for what they thought was a "higher use" and gave up because of the cost of ripping out the pads, the electric, the gas, and the water supplies and sanitary lines.

It gets cold in the winter around here and a lot of the stock is old and inefficient so unless the capital investment is off the charts it is worth looking into.