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LA South REIA has a lot of events.

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To be perfectly honest I did these investments more for sport but at this point I have to finances to really get serious.

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That would give you much superior returns over paying a bunch of middle men, you would also then be assured that the rehab was done up to you quality standards, and finally it would hedge your investment to a large degree from any short term pricing volatility caused by a recession or other events outside of your control.

In any event, I think it's clear that construction of an entire new roof would be capitalized, fully removing all old shingles, and re shingling from scratch to a bare roof likewise would probably require capitalization, but simply laying a new layer of shingles over the existing shingles (which can be done in this case since its the original roof with only 1 layer of shingles), is a much closer call.thanks for all the input