I think financing is an excellent way to grow your business, but to grow too fast without having reserves for the rainy days could be like you said in your article, disastrous.I'm currently exploring options to refi and cash out one of my free and clear because the property value jumped more than 100% of my purchase price + repair costs.I'm looking at: 1) acquiring another income generating free and clear with the proceeds2) trying a flip, and applying what I know about the planning, permit, and construction aspects to my advantage.Both are leveraging up, but with option one, I'd still have piece of mind that there isn't a big loan attached to it.

Good contractor could do everything in a more timely manner then doing piece by piece, reason being, painters for example, can use a sprayer and do all the units in a fraction of the time.

Unless of course the slab is completely cracked into several different pieces.

Our finishes where not as highend, sheet vinyl floors, 2 piece tub surround.

The seller denied they had any problems so my main piece of advice would be to not trust the sellers numbers.

Jay Rodriguez - best piece of advise weather your wholesaling or bird doging - Find a DEAL and the money will find you.

Structural probably involves installing some LVLs, which even if they're large shouldn't cost more than a couple hundred dollars a piece.

of successful members of BP will attest, it's certainly possible.And the estimating rehab costs is definitely one of the hardest pieces if you don't have a construction background.

Instead of just analyzing the chess board -- to use an analogy -- they are moving pieces.

@Josh Randall if you have provided your lender with the following six pieces of information, that constitutes a formal application and they have three business days (including Saturdays) to provide compliance docs such as the GFE1.