I've heard plenty of goods things about sketch up, but don't have the patience to learn it.Kitchen designs boil down to fractions of an inch, so most free software programs won't get you very far unless you're just trying to choose backsplash colors or something.

Dark times. 

They come in various stripes and colors - some very broad in topic, some extremely specific. 

If you like, reach out to me and I can provide you with the paints and colors that we use on our rental properties.

If your walls are white or white-ish, you pick a darker accent color for all of your trim.

Borrower has had the property for sale for six months at $599M but then dropped it to FMV just before sale, but not enough time before sale to actually sell it open market, so not only did i have MY appraisal in hand but about 90 color interior photos of a pristine property on the market ready to show.

It could be as simple as “Neutralizing” the paint colors (gray, tan, white, etc.), to as large as doing a complete remodel or addition with the intention of increasing rents and/or resell value.The benefit of doing this is that the investor can now introduce bank financing (I.e.

This, by the way, is never any kind of data to use when it comes to purchasing a property but it could give you a stab-in-the-dark guess at what the market value of the discussion property might be. 

I've heard that doing a quit claim deed can nullify the title insurance that has been in place since we purchased this 13 years ago, but mostly in the dark about how to execute this document so that's the I's are dotted & t's are crossed properly once it goes to the county recorders office.

Basically it makes us feel 'comfortable'... if that word is allowed to be used to describe real estate investing.However, for out of state, we find ourselves feeling helpless with what we view as unpredictable markets (fluctuating values, and therefore fluctuating equity positions), long vacancy times (in the Springs, our houses get rented in a week or two, max), and of course, not being able to stop in and physically check out the property and talk with the tenants to mitigate any of their concerns (without having to play telephone through the PM).Basically what I am getting at, is that I am not sure if I just have rose-colored glasses with Colorado Springs due to it being a hot market at this point in time (and when we entered the market), or if others feel the same way in that Colorado Springs has a lot to offer in terms of it having a stable (and foreseeably strong) economy, decent price/rent ratios, and all around good investment potential for a long-term view.