I have been spending countless hours working on my Real Estate Blog.

After a lot of years of wanting to, and thinking about it- I've migrated to my adopted home State of Florida (near Delray Beach) and actually spend most of the year there.

Budget for a professional contractor as you might need to get one.

Consider a second job so that you have more income and less time to spend it.

Hence the folks who can spend 40 or more hours checking the local properties will have an advantage over someone who works and travels outside the area.

I have plans to film our next flip and make it a "how to flip a house" start to finish, including looking for the houses, interviewing contractors, putting together a time frame and budget, and showing the progress daily.

His basic premise is that we all spend a lot of time futzing around with stuff that doesn't much matter, and if we just focused on the few essential things we have to do, we would have lots of free time.

Also what type of plan did you get for the amount of money your spending each month?

Maybe there is some value in spending money on advertising or an agent.John Corey

tflann,If you can find deals for $260K that are worth $380K and only need 1-2K in repairs, why don't you just spend the 1-2K and then make $118K?