Lets you know how much money you are making per hour spent managing the place while you are the manager.

To be able to get an adrenaline rush out of doing something that others could not see or could not think outside the box and see the potential is great!

Before I arrived here I spent 5 years in Washington, DC, getting a Master's degree and working for a few years in the think tank community.My brother, Chris, has been working in real estate in South Florida in one way or another since 2008.

I know what money I spent wisely and which I wasted.

I don't know if this is a common thing, or may be it's just a pure coincidence that I came across a few times just in the last two months.When I schedule with a listing agent to see a home, and most times it's either a short sale or REO, especially a REO, the home is vacant and you have a lock box with a four digit combination code.Now once in a while I will be at the property on time and the agent's running late, and I would get a call from them saying "go on ahead, the code is xxxx and I'll be there in 10 minutes".

No one wants to be greeted by an angry tenant waiting with firearms.At the appointed time, we come with a locksmith, two moving men and their moving van and us in our protective gear (work clothes, gloves, N95 face mask, and eye protection) and boxes and bring construction quality plastic bags.

Jewelry is rather tuff unless you know what it is, get it appraised at least by a jeweler and have a lock box arrangement, otherwise you might get a cubic Z.I do gold and it gets tested and locked up.But personal property needs to be identified and detailed on a UCC form, filed for record to perfect a security interest.

Overall I have spent about $5,000 and have been very pleased with the home, but is not a wood frame home (concrete).

So I spent money and it was barely worth itThe appraisals here seem to come at fair market value when you want to buy/sell, but if you want to refinance at the same bank, they come low because its common knowledge to appraisal companies that Banks do not like to refinance in order to keep their risk low.Bought another property at 80% LTV, same thing.

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