I would not call myself a professional but rather always in training

@Steve - The DFWREIClub (dot com) meets every Saturday at the Diamond Oaks Country Club at 8:30 am (networking) and 9 am (training).

Plus, the advice will not be a guess from a non-licensed and trained person.

One train of thought I come across is to go ahead and do a full retail rehab while you rent it, if the duration of the rent is short (3-5 years), then assuming the tenants havnt trashed it within that 3 year period, you are ready to sell it with little work to be done when market turns around.

It's easy enough that a trained monkey could do it, which is fortunate, because that's a large segment of the Hvac industry out here.

Last year I was on the East Coast for a few weeks of training and missed it.

I feel like their objective was to sell us their next level of training and software package, which sounds nice but don't have the 30K required to continue on.

Invest your excess cash into writing books and putting on boot camps to train the entrepreneurs of tomorrow.

I'd hazard a guess that less than one person out of 100 who plunks don't thousands of dollars for this training even makes a single dollar.Are there deals you can buy for $30K that are worth $100K?

The current commissioner was the broker that trained me as a newbie and man he is a stickler.