Walmart curtain rods (or any other cheap rod) that can be replaced on each turn so the tenant doesn’t try to staple a bedsheet to the window, ormount their rod brackets directly to your freshly filled and painted window casing.

One of our conference bootcamp speakers and a BiggerPockets Blog staple, Marty Boardman, wrote an article that was published by Realtor.com today about why Realtors need to come to the BP conference.If you're an agent and have wondered why you would want to attend a conference for real estate investors, please read and share this article:Why Realtors Should Attend the BiggerPockets Real Estate Investing Summit

As far as carpet goes I’d mention to the installers that part of the reason you’re installing it is to preserve the wood for the future so they don’t glue it down and staple it instead as hard wood adds value to the property down the road potentially.

I'm 28 years old, live in Orange County, & work as a Firefighter for a municipal fire department in the Los Angeles area.I'm just getting my feet wet with real estate, and have been listening to the BiggerPockets Podcast for the last several weeks and reading a few "staple" RE books.

They don't like anything stapled to the posts around here!

Real estate platforms are a great source for continued growth and association with like-minded individuals.You probably already know that you can submit your own verbal/email offers to listing agents.You probably already know that you could have an attorney create a general offer contract to utilize for all your offers, but each state "may" have its own offer to purchase contracts online or in BIG BOX office stores, such as Staples and Office Max.Craigslist and fsbo websites have tons of leads as well.I hope that you have found at least some of this information useful.This has been an information nugget.Anthony

Actually, one of my staple skills as a small time landlord is, well, painting....

@Ben Staples The lender will know whether you have equity only after they have an appraisal done.

Just in the past few day's: Burger King - an American staple - is allegedly moving its headquarters to Canada for tax savings. 

@Linda Weygant, @Dovid Staples, @Randy K., @Daniel Lehman, @Dave Pate, @ Kenny OliverI just wanted to thank you all for your comments and feedback.