@Aaron Arnold in the middle of building out my portfolio and the benchmark I've always gone back to is either >5% cap rate or >$100 in profit/month/door.

Middle class areas.

Account Closed you should look for SEVERAL good contractors before buying a house if you plan to do a major rehab (you may need to fire one in the middle of your project, then what?).

It is good to know that there is a "middle ground" between the often expensive route of converting to natural gas and the less buyer friendly route of keeping the Oil system. 

In my case, 10 of 12 agencies responded, and the highest, middle, and lowest prices were all with the same underwriter! 

You can choose to maximize the return by leveraging the business with debt or you can purchase for cash and reduce the risk and the return investment (or any level of leverage in the middle). 

I gave up on living this fantastic, sick lie we call American white-collar middle-class respectability.

The property may be considered bi-level with foyer in middle between the two levels, but nothing is below grade.I know for a fact what type of foundation it is, I've built quite a few houses, but do appraisers look at it different?

Im honestly at a loss as to these quotes. 4) See #3, but I honestly just say Im in the middle of an interior renovation, I dont have time to focus on the driveway (for example), Id like a quote please to have the disintegrated asphalt driveway replaced with concrete. 5) This is alluding to work thats started and unfinished. 

It's simply one of those times when you have to cowboy up and make it right.In the middle of fixing things, the tenant wasn't super responsive herself, but anyway.