I was wondering because I have been watching a couple homes in the 300k range (which is the medium price in Tacoma area) and I wanted to measure how much more I should offer, where My offer won’t be over looked.

However, if as an example, we take a look at the many people who enjoyed some short term success on the back of the dot.com boom of the late 1990s, we’ll see that there were not too many that held onto their fortunes or whatever it was by which they measured their success.

Joe,As long as you have a scope of repairs, can use a tape measure and can multiply you can get a HomeTech book (google them, no available in stores) and use it to get a bearing on your estimates.

As scary as it sounds, I am right with Mike on this.I would ad that anything is possible if you have the dedication, but if you don't then it would be smart to realize that before taking any drastic measures such as quitting your job.

In fact there is definitely a measurable slow down in home sales during the winter months.

As I was planning the small renovation that would see the end of the boarding house, I realised the house was serving a clientele not being reached by our other student apartments.We decided to leave it for a year to measure the behaviour / performance and found that it had low vacancy, no defaulted payments, no damage, and the tenants almost always brought us new tenants before they would leave.Just over 2-years in, we are still happy with the house ... it is more work, but it is also more return.

Wealth isn't measured in dollars it is measured in time.

We actually tried that since I was replacing all of the doors with new prehung 6 panel doors anyway and when we took the measurements with everything off I still couldn't find a washer and dryer that would fit through the opening into the basement.

Measures about 2' x 3'I checked Home Depot, and they seem to have parts you can order (the spiral window balance), but they do not carry them in store.That is where there is a problem.

Commercial real estate is measured by the rentable square feet, residential by monthly market rents.