The rest of the work, restoring the property to livable condition you can have a regular contractor do at regular rates. 

Your selection of "projects" will be different in each scenario.We are buy and hold investors but even among our selection of rentals, we would have different priorities:student rental units - looking for simple. healthy, efficient, durable, and easy to clean;rooming house - focus is even more heavily on energy/resource efficiency since we carry the costs.executive rentals - higher end finishes and furnishings.

The maximum amount of money a lender will give you under an FHA 203k depends on the type of loan you get (regular vs. streamlined).

., just finished cleaning it up, so instead of great night with friends, drinking a vat of Irish whiskey after a nice hot shower.    

Right now I switched back to a book that was a little more detailed and I am cleaning out all of my welcome emails that have tons of reading information. 

We can get the mess cleaned up and get the property "working" fast.

Morning all, Does anyone have a cleaning company for multi unit common areas that works on the southside of Chicago, Hyde Park, Washington Park, Woodlawn, Bronzeville, & South Chicago?

@Lynn M.I will agree that a tenant with good credit is better and playing the waiting game is a better strategy for many property owners, especially for properties in high demand.For those who own property in less desirable areas where the applicant pool is smaller or in situations where paying the mortgage without collecting rent would put the owner in a bad financial position, I think simply checking for judgments and criminal records is good enough.Of course I'm willing to accept a higher degree of risk than most property owners because my costs are lower due to the fact that I process my own evictions and many times do the clean-outs/repairs myself.I've learned that it is good idea to at least check for non-existence of rental judgments because that is a sign that either they will leave the property when asked or that they've never rented a property before in their own name because they are young.

clean and simple. 

Teaching takes up a lot of my regular hours so I've mostly been reading (and reading and reading) but it'd be nice to meet some people offline.