experience, no book is going to give u the magic formula, sorry,,,,, your best bet look at a few properties with a contractor get an idea what they are charging for certain things in your market. labor rates are different per trades per area, material costs vary so on

where u at in cali.

Do u have to?

And my four kids are my world so there u are.

so basicly u are saying that someone teaches ya how to screw the bank so to speak?

Resturant jobs.. from Dishwasher to Supervisor for a small chinese resturant.. but it sucked.. got my real estate license right out of high school but that never really took off... and im more interested in the rental side of real estate anyways..

go to zillow.com they have good comps but dont depend on the zestimates they give u on properties.

So would u say the purpose of doing so is to make sure that no one area of the town gets overly populated??

If u don't have months to wait for it to work out, then dont buy a short sale property...that is really all i can say.

I got u.. thanks for this great explanation and insight esp. about the cash on cash return, that makes a lot of sense.