The thinner version will show the lines soon enough.

"Blood Meridian" by Cormac MacCarthyEverything I've read by this guy is fantastic.

But, housing costs seem a too little rich for my blood and with a full time job I cannot afford the time to fully rehab a place.

Up until last month, I hadn't never tried blood sausage nor did I know what it was (aka black pudding), until I saw it served all over Spain.

When there is blood in the streets (figuratively), good time to buy..

Be careful, some GC's can sense blood in the water and many times they don't have any motivation to control your project costs.

I am amazed that so many beginners gravitate toward flipping, This is some of the most involved enterprise in all of RE.1.Understand your marketplace correctly, which leads to2.Estimate retail price correctly3.Price the repairs correctly, which leads to4.Make the right offer5.Have GOOD contractors, which is hard for a newbie without a track record, which leads to6.Remodel correctly – know what to do and what not to do7.Structure financing correctly8.Structure the selling process correctly9.Buy, so that you have 3 exit strategiesAnd then there is more…You mess up anything on this list, and you will pay with blood, sweat, tears, money, and debt.

Why give away all of your hard earned blood sweat and tears to someone that wants to burn you?

As deals get thinner and thinner we see this more and more.

It looked like the Marines storming the beaches at Normandy (minus the blood and death, of course), landing SEVEN offers that day.It was a 1031 exchange for my client and we had a lot of static getting the tenant out, but because I retained  an attorney as my broker of record, all of it was handled with relative ease and at a low cost for myFinal tally:  $59,600.00 over asking price with the high bidder waiving his home inspection contingency!