They become important lifestyle choices.The skill set is a bit different & if your natural talents mesh with the commercial space you just may accelerate the growth of your net worth.

Never have they been even an adequate painter.

With practice it becomes very natural.

Sure, with an adequate base of capital and credit and/or partners.

My experience is that the tenant/buyer's Lender will not necessarily have a problem with it, but you must disclose to them the nature of the transaction: that you are buying the property and selling it shortly thereafter for a profit.

My questions here are general in nature as this potential deal hasn't progressed far enough for me to pull additional information.

While it does sound like a scam, I do know that insurance companies look for places to rent temporarily for customers who need housing after natural disasters.

And nowhere in the formula does it account for appreciation either forced or natural occurring.However, I strongly disagree with the look at 100 properties to buy one property.I don't want to waste my time looking at 100 properties to buy one.

Myself, coming from an carpenter/metal working background, also like some of the more "new school" construction w/ exposed timbers and black iron bracketry, especially w/ wrought iron stairs, rails, and natural stone.

This could play an important factor in risk related to the startup nature of crowdfunding.